Sentences with phrase «meaningful human timescale»

In another 20 years, they will be gone, and they won't come back on any sort of meaningful human timescale.

Not exact matches

It's both criminal — in that the loss is irretrievable on any humanly meaningful timescale — and criminally stupid — in that while the benefits humans derive from a well - functioning biosphere are difficult to trace in detail, they are almost certainly far, far greater than what we * can * already trace.

As I wrote before: Postponing meaningful mitigation action until the shit hits the fan comes with considerable risk, because many changes in climate are not reversible on human timescales.