Sentences with phrase «make human civilization»
Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.
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Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.
It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.
It is true that every great discovery in human civilization is made in particular circumstances and because of a favorable combination of circumstances.
Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.
The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.
But unfortunately, «these same lifesaving social instincts didn't readily lend themselves to exploration, artistic expression, romance, inventiveness and experimentation — the other human drives that make for a vibrant civilization.»
Only the Jewish and Christian God made human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the human soul, and has commissioned human beings to build civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed in them.
It also made possible new adventures of the human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history in the western world.
How can a civilization that fails to make provision for the next generation» or even to bring about the next generation at all» hope to give a compelling account of itself before a world of competing visions of the human future?
The claim to absolute knowledge, the appeal to a form of universalism that should inform civilization that is not based on empirical indexes alone, and the regulation of human sexuality that religious traditions promote make religion seem a threat to modern liberal society.
He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.
Our civilization's moral code was founded on Judaeo - Christian revelation, which in turn gave rise to a rational conviction that every human person is made in the image of God.
This suggests that the earliest humans to make their homes in the New World, including people from the Clovis civilization, must have taken a very different route.
And as the last 5,000 or so years of human civilization make clear, any time large numbers of human beings gather together in one shared space without laws governing their behavior, problems inevitably arise.
And now new research indicates that the structures are not human - made at all, rather they are natural formations sculpted by the breakdown of methane gas within the ocean floor — millions of years before civilization.
«This is what humans do, what great civilizations do: They explore and they make history.»
As the vast ice sheets that covered much of the northern hemisphere receded, human civilization blossomed, making the most of the relatively mild conditions that we still enjoy today.
They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.
Barley was used by ancient civilizations as a food for humans and animals, as well as to make alcoholic beverages; the first known recipe for barley wine dates back to 2800 BC in Babylonia.
Perhaps learning from the excesses of Happy Feet, the creative minds behind this film make every effort to keep the action and tone light and frothy, even when dealing with such serious issues as bee cruelty and the potential end of human civilization without the important floral pollination process that bees provide.
The man - made virus has destroyed a good 90 % of the humans and crumbled civilization.
These are important subjects however they do not have enough cohesion elements, which would allow global education, whose aim is to make people feel belonging to the «human civilization» and «global society» on planet Earth.
His «Prism» series depicts geometrical and man - made beauty as a symbol of the human civilization, and the aggressive and violent progress of the post-modern worldwide capitalism, yet exploring something simply beautiful at the same time.
As nowaday, our economic pattern, we are making ourselves to go into dangerous situation, but still so many world leaders put their heads into sand not to see their activity will lead world to collapse human civilization.
Human civilization has depended on our ability to «gather» solar energy through photosynthesis for millennia — this is called «agriculture» — and today's solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies make it VERY easy to gather solar energy for electricity, water and space heating, etc..
Still the key point is there were several varieties of human species — Neanderthals, Denisovans among us — in the world 100,000 years ago and it isn't at all clear that any of the other species would have made the advance to a technological civilization.
And if we've done nothing by 2020, it may be that we kick off geophysical feedbacks that make the problem so much worse human civilization will be endangered.
Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»
She has taken a lifetime to make herself an expert in a topic that is central to the future of human civilization.»
over the past 10,000 years has allowed establishment of human civilization, by making it possible to create large stationary agricultural farms because we
Digging up and burning the deposits of ancient sunlight stored eons ago in primeval swamps has transformed human existence and made industrial and urban civilization possible.
All of these changes are a product of human - made climate change and all impose significant risks to human civilization.
McKibben makes this point himself at the very beginning of the article when he writes: «We're losing the fight, badly and quickly — losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in.»
He argued that using Canadian tar sands — which he called some of the «dirtiest oil on the planet» — would «make it much less likely for human civilization to succeed in meeting» that goal of leaving oil and other fossil fuels untapped.
«World history shows that the road of human civilization has never been a smooth one and that mankind has made progress by surmounting difficulty.
The Baltimore Green Forum seeks to educate about and stimulate dialogue about what humans can do to make modern civilization more sustainable, including adjusting to finite resource limits and preserving biodiversity and a healthy environment.
The Baltimore Green Forum seeks to educate and stimulate dialogue about what humans can do to make modern civilization more sustainable, including adjusting to finite resource limits and preserving biodiversity and a healthy environment.
Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although another Pleistocene - scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.
In Part 1 «Climate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialization.
His book Assault on Reason — published in April 2007 — stated that: «Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several «tipping points» that could — within as little as ten years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage of the planet's habitability for human civilization.»
BuryCoal.com has been established to be the antithesis to «Drill, Baby, Drill» and make a forceful and well - reasoned case for leaving all that carbon safely underground, while moving to a zero - carbon, renewable global energy system that can sustain human prosperity and civilization indefinitely.
The risks is inherent when we make serious changes that affect the infrastructure of human civilization.
Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.
The relatively stable climate over the past 10,000 years has allowed establishment of human civilization, by making it possible to create large stationary agricultural farms because we could rely on stable weather patterns.
The good and more stable weather and much higher CO2 levels relative to the previous Ice Age made possible by the Holocene appears to be what enabled the development of human civilization by enabling the cultivation of crops rather than hunting and gathering.
As the image at right shows, modern human civilization itself has made the situation substantially different from prior climatic cycles.
He expressed the opinion that it would be «arrogant» for anyone now living to suggest that we should make any effort to maintain the Earth's climate within the range of temperatures that have existed throughout all of recorded human history, while apparently not regarding it as «arrogant» for the humans of the past century up through the present to engage in activities which threaten to radically and abruptly alter the Earth's climate and ecosystems upon which not only human civilization, but the survival of the human species, utterly depend.
Water stress and drought are as old as civilization, and while human beings have devised many ways to guard against these threats, economies have evolved in ways that make us more vulnerable.