Sentences with phrase «mass human migrations»

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

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In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

Combined with the human - induced depletion of groundwater sources by pumping, and the extensive pollution of rivers and lakes, mass migrations may be unavoidable.

Human Flow is made up of remarkable footage showing this mass migration and how people move around this planet.

Indian artist Girjesh Kumar Singh's Laaga Chunari mein daag (Look at you) assembles a compendium of human faces sculpted out of broken bricks from destroyed buildings, incorporating an elegy to the impermanence of the idea of home and an inevitable metaphor for the tragedy of today's mass migration.

Back in 2002, when I wrote about «The Megalopolis as Eco-Strategy» (part of a special Science Times section), a lot of scientists told me that the mass migration of humans from rural areas to cities would have environmental benefits in the long run.

I don't think mass migrations have ever been a problem for the human race.

Joronen and Oksanen (2012) more constructively identified three key features: in emergency: «climate change is an immediate or impending threat», that extends to «life and health of humans and many other life forms» and is highly likely to result in «social disorder, for example economic turmoil and mass migration of climate refugees», in the absence of immediate action.

With rising temperatures and mass migrations in the news, it is comforting to know that human ingenuity has now brought us sixty nine types of coffee machine which use disposable single serving «pods».

Consider the facts: the climate system is indicated to have left the natural cycle path; multiple lines of evidence and studies from different fields all point to the human fingerprint on current climate change; the convergence of these evidence lines include ice mass loss, pattern changes, ocean acidification, plant and species migration, isotopic signature of CO2, changes in atmospheric composition, and many others.