Sentences with phrase «more urgent threat»

Recent political events and long - term environmental trends offer little comfort; artificial intelligence and synthetic biology add a more urgent threat.

Now that climate change poses an even more urgent threat to the endangered tortoise, biologists have a controversial plan to safeguard its future — by moving it to new sites outside of its known historical range.

Not exact matches

As the need to deal with the threat of climate change becomes ever more urgent, they're also a vital source of diversity and renewables in our energy mix.

The threat of continued climate change is so urgent, more than 170 world leaders have signed the Paris climate agreement to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the future and transition towards a clean energy economy.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

Ridley responded, saying that «After reading their critiques, I stand even more firmly behind my conclusion that the threats to coral reefs from both man - made warming and ocean acidification are unlikely to be severe, rapid or urgent.»

But our work is far from done and the threat to our planet is even greater and more urgent than ever.

What precisely makes these world leaders so convinced that climate change is a more urgent and massive threat than the incessant rampages of Islamist violence?

With the possible exception of the rising threat of nuclear war, no issue facing humanity is more urgent than climate change.

The two - week Bonn climate negotiations got underway, President Donald Trump delayed his anticipated decision on whether the United States would stay in the Paris Agreement, the Arctic Council recognized climate change as an urgent threat — and more.