Sentences with phrase «most urgent threat»

«While conventional D.C. wisdom is focused on the manufactured crisis of the «fiscal cliff,» the truth is that the most urgent threat to our national safety and economic well - being is the climate cliff that we are already beginning to tumble over,» Brad Johnson, campaign manager of ClimateSilence.org, said in a response.

In the film she draws parallels with witchcraft trials in 13th century France where witchcraft was declared the most urgent threat to mankind of all and where anyone who dared disagree ran the risk of being declared a sorcerer and rejected — or worse — by mainstream society.

In a brilliant and heartfelt acceptance speech, DiCaprio made a compelling case for why all 34 million live viewers should take action on the «most urgent threat facing our entire species.»

It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

«It's the most urgent threat affecting our species.»

It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating,» DiCaprio said, to applause from celebrities and others inside Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.

The paper covers the most urgent threats to this resource, which the authors view as governance challenges.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant disease.

Based on Lester Brown's latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, this presentation highlights just a few of the most urgent threats to our global food supply and the trends that created them.

It is one in which through our collective efforts, we forestall the most urgent threats to the survival of whales.

A few weeks ago we released a PowerPoint presentation highlighting a few of the most urgent threats to our global food supply and the trends that created them.

This report shows the most urgent threats and the most threatened regions.

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«The threat of invasive species is perhaps our most urgent economic and conservation challenge.»

«The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently classified these carbapenem - resistant organisms in their highest, most urgent antimicrobial resistance threat level,» said James Kirby, MD, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at BIDMC and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Probably the most serious and urgent challenge faced by the physical world now is the threat of climate change.

The climate threat is the most urgent one facing the planet and shutting down major non-carbon energy sources makes it that much harder to meet carbon reduction goals.

The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn't climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species.

Most obviously, activists of both stripes understand the urgent threat of climate change and want to reduce carbon emissions.

«But the good news is that the methods conservation organizations have been using to identify which species need the most urgent help also work when climate change is the main threat.»

The emergence of antibiotic - resistant gonorrhea is considered one of the most pressing problems in infectious disease — just two years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named it an «urgent threat,» and indeed, gonorrhea seems to be evolving resistance to drugs at quite a rapid clip.