Sentences with phrase «modern civilisation»

"Modern civilization" refers to the way societies and communities currently live and function, including their advancements in technology, governance, and culture, compared to earlier periods in history. It involves the current state of human progress and the development of societies' infrastructure, institutions, and the overall ways of life. Full definition
What if the thermodynamic success of modern civilisation depends on deposits of energy that the bitch mother earth keeps delivering?
On a personal level, she's trying to find who she is while also averting the end of humanity, but her origins are brilliantly interwoven with a dark and compelling science fiction story of how modern civilisations fell.
His later experiences, first in Cairo and later in New York, filled him with horror at where modern civilisation seemed to be going.
It's time to rethink how modern civilisation took root
With the onset of modern civilisation about 5,000 years ago, our physiology suddenly was asked to digest and metabolise larger amounts of sugar and starch especially refined sugars.
`... they do look like signs, but signs for a product modern civilisation has no use for» (R. Ricard, quoted in P. Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, London 1998, p. 102).
In David Harrison's third solo show with the gallery, a selection of new work presents a densely populated and fully realised universe, where the supernatural pull of the natural world is intertwined with a keen sense of modern civilisation's insensitivities...
The development of universal human rights would generally be acknowledged as a prerequisite of modern civilisation.
Death by CivilisationJames CaryDLTThe title of this book promises a coherent critique of modern civilisation and its ever - increasing ills.
In this respect the old phraseology is at variance with the psychology of modern civilisations.
The left and right patterns are not able to meet the complexity of modern civilisations.
I strongly believe that it is in challenging times like these that people have been forced out of their comfort zones to create new economies, new opportunities and enhance the course of modern civilisation
What is beyond doubt is that Homo sapiens survived and turned to farming soon after the ice retreated, setting the stage for the rise of modern civilisation.
The crucial point is that our modern civilisation has been built on the basis of the prevailing climate and sea levels.
The also eat the organ meats of animals and fish, including livers, kidneys and more which contain the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K which offer protection against not only heart disease, but cancers, diabetes and the other so called «diseases of modern civilisation».
Robert Smithson is interested in modern types of industry, quarries and salt lakes, prehistoric layers of sediment and puzzling ruins of ancient and modern civilisation.
Yesterday I was in a bookshop and glanced at a book called Going Green, in which the author stated: «Modern civilisations have built their lives around a more or less predictable climate over the past centuries.»
The whole of modern civilisation has been made possible by a period of solar stability within a band of less than 4 Watts per square metre.
Energy costs are critical to modern civilisations and their abilities to advance whilst providing adequately for their citizens, especially the poorest, so anything that significantly affects such costs or indeed energy availability is of the utmost importance.
As Guy Macpherson says, «To reverse carbon output, modern civilisation has to collapse.»
Most of our modern civilisation relies on fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
The environmental left leapt on climate science because it seemed to confirm deeply held notions of the planet being fragile, and modern civilisation being in essence destructive.
What is relevant now is the rate of climate change, the specific causes, and its impact on modern civilisation that is dependent, for agricultural and societal security, a relatively stable climate.
It is one of the most important cornerstones of a modern civilisation.
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