Sentences with phrase «modern global society»

In Chapter 2 I said: «Christian fundamentalism, by capturing the mainline churches as it has been doing, is preventing Christianity from playing a positive and creative role in the shaping of the modern global society.»

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With so much profound change occurring, the sense arose among some European intellectuals that the differences between the new global society and the past few centuries is as great as that between the modern period and the medieval one.

Although globalization is a modern phenomenon, the idea of a global consciousness and society goes back a very long way, and originated as a religious vision.

The fundamental contradiction between society and nature that is implied in modern industrial culture and society is being intensified in the global market, which is dominated by fiercely competing corporate agencies.

None of them foster the kind of entrepreneurial and scientific innovation that success in the global economy demands; most establish a religion hostile not only to individual initiative but to religious freedom, the education of women, and other indispensable aspects of modern society.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

This is a modern global archetype to be found in many societies and communities.

Speaking on the theme, «One Vision, Many Lives,» the President noted that a society that aims to transform itself into a modern, productive player in the global market needs an educated workforce; and that means it must get its educational policies right.

It's about embracing our modern, diverse and dynamic society and looking to a global future.

It's therefore urgent to set out a new, positive vision for health and the health service — a modern NHS that delivers the best care for patients wherever they live, supports world - class scientific research, is supported by all sectors of society working to create a healthier nation, and takes on a global leadership role in advancing the objective of universal health coverage,» says Dr Richard Horton, Editor - in - chief, The Lancet.

Very good, they would say, at doing very bad things in terms of undercutting public understanding of what many see as an existential threat to modern society and the global economy.

The findings indicate that coral bleaching is a «modern phenomenon» driven by global warming, says study co-author Prof Nick Graham, a Royal Society university research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster University.

In the modern day society, women hold key positions in leading global organizations.

A similar fusion of B - movie jolts and topical allegory, «Jupiter's Moon» is clearly an attack on modern society's inhumane response to the global refugee crisis.

The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be complex: in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests, in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young people to become adept in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.

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We need to look at the world around us and consider what global problems modern society will need our children to solve.

The topicality of the global migrant crisis was evident elsewhere in the activities at this year's Frieze London: a series of Frieze Talks invited speakers and the public to discuss the meaning of» Borderlands», while the Collections Fund at Frieze, supported by the Contemporary Art Society, enabled the UK's Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art to make acquisitions at the fair of works specifically addressing themes of migration and displacement by John Akomfrah and Kader Attia.

While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in society after 1950 and wider global influences that came into play.

In 2015, he was the guest curator of The Americas Society's exhibition Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940 — 1978, which aimed to reposition modern Latin American design within a larger global context.

The second half of the 20th century saw much of the vast global industrialization boom that has created the infrastructure modern societies now depend on, including seaside nuclear plants.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

One suggestion and one question: Suggestion: This newly minted piece of research from Proceedings of the Royal Society debunks the modern solar - global - warming argument; I think it would help greatly toward your cause if you add a link to this paper.

In a modern society characterized by electronic information exchange, interlinked financial systems, and global trade, the control of access to nuclear weapons technology has grown increasingly difficult.

They wrote: «This result, which indicates that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, is the first demonstration that the stability of modern societies relates strongly to the global climate» (ENSO, the El Niño / Southern Oscillation, is the scientific term for the cycle of alternating warmer and cooler years).

According to Beck, the modern era — technological, industrial society — had exposed society to ever greater, global risks, and that our awareness of these risks and the scepticism of modernity's achievements marked the beginning of a new historical era, in which this awareness of risks and their amelioration would become the basis of politics.

It seems that Dr Lomborg in the past had attracted controversy for suggesting that the dangers of climate change are overstated, and that modern society faces other more pressing challenges such as global poverty.

Of course, simplifying anything too much will lead to experts and more - informed viewers criticizing the work for oversimplifying the subject matter - and as I'll discuss below, even TreeHugger has written about the problems with this oversimplification - but in order for anyone to understand something as complex as how global trade, manufacturing and consumption functions in modern society, it can be helpful to start with a basic overview so the average person can more easily digest the material.

United Nations commissioned scientists — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Royal Society, the World Academy of Arts & Science, United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, the UN, NASA, 178 countries, The Earth Charter, modern U.S. Presidents, have declared a global emergency... terminal Climate Change caused by humans.

Moreover, no matter how «devastating for modern human society» global warming might be, it's not nearly as «devastating for modern human society» as what will happen if we accept the AGW theory and take action, based on the AGW theory, to STOP global warming.