Sentences with phrase «much of the life on the planet»

(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.

Not exact matches

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.

There is not much likelihood of any denomination undertaking to reorder its life so as to contribute to the sustainability of life on the planet.

In short, he is much more likely to see life in proportion than the man who insists that life on this planet sets the final boundary of human experience.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

Got to remember Lorraine... these are the ones who have defended John Travolta and had nothing to say about Coach Sandusky... they live on another planet... where the morals are much different... not equal though... that is the fantasy part of their doctrine

Too much trust in an ultimate cosmic purpose might diminish our spontaneous respect for the delicacy of living forms to which evolution has unconsciously and painfully given birth on our insignificant planet.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

We spend too much time inside and nothing connects us to the bigger picture of life than connecting with the physical planet we live on.

There's so much water on some of TRAPPIST - 1's seven Earth - sized planets that any life lurking there might be difficult to detect.

Microbiologist James Holden of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst speculates that our planet's deep biomass could weigh as much as all the things living up here on the surface.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

So Proxima b's 11 - day year exposes it to two thirds as much starlight as Earth — enough to place the planet in the middle of its star's «habitable zone,» a temperate circumstellar region where liquid water and life could conceivably exist on a rocky world's surface.

«The Pilbara deposits are the same age as much of the crust of Mars, which makes hot spring deposits on the red planet an exciting target for our quest to find fossilised life there.»

The total mass of microbes living beneath the seafloor has been estimated at as much as a third of all the living stuff on the planet.

«Humans were required to carry out much of the experimentation in this study, while life detection missions on other planets will need to be robotic,» says Dr Goordial.

You also have a really interesting piece by Robert Hazen, about the fact that the mineral diversity on earth is unique, well unique, as far as we know; because as it turns out so much of that diversity is the result of life itself on earth [itself] creating the minerals that we find on the planet.

«The microbial world is one of the last frontiers of exploration on our planet, and we're using microscopes together with genomics to learn as much as possible about this invisible life.»

Since life originated on the earth in a span much shorter than the present age of the earth, we have additional evidence that the origin of life has a high probability, at least on planets with an abundant supply of hydrogen - rich gases, liquid water and sources of energy.

But the links between the two phenomena go much deeper, so much so that those seeking life on other planets are eagerly hunting for signs of tectonic activity.

While star system Proxima Centauri is a more sensible choice for an interstellar voyage, since it also contains a rocky, habitable - zone planet and is much closer to Earth (4.22 light years away), the opportunity to find life on multiple worlds in the TRAPPIST - 1 system increases its chances of a visit someday.

A new study on the density of the seven planets in the nearby TRAPPIST - 1 system has found that these worlds may have even more water than Earth does — but in a cruel case of having too much of a good thing, that might be enough to drown out any hopes of finding life there.

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contribute.

It is even possible that life on Earth may have evolved from life forms ejected from Venus, because pieces of planets were blasted off of each other much more frequently in the early Solar System by asteroidal and cometary impacts, and so microbes from Venus could easily have ended up landing on Earth (Sean Henahan, Access Excellence, February 5, 1997; and David Grinspoon, 1997).

If it turns out that much of the universe is already occupied with other life forms, we'd have to actually get a move on and colonize some darn planets.

Much research has been conducted on potatoes, and the conclusion drawn by every medical doctor and nutritionist on the planet is that you have to be nuts to think you can live off of potatoes.

It provides a much - needed process for moving out of fear and into love, out of the need to control and into trust, so you can weather the storms of everyday life and embrace the sacred privilege of life on this planet.

Instead of depicting global hysteria, however, the film focuses on the unique perspective of two sisters whose personal lives are in as much trouble as the planet.

«I'm not going to make a difference, I'm not going to change a thing,» concludes Ari late in the film, and while most people are afraid to admit it, that's pretty much the futile fate of every single person on this planet, regardless of what good one attempts to make of one's life (a certain recent outside event has certainly taught me that); it's just that Ari bears no illusions about himself or how the world works.

Probably not all that much — you're probably too busy enjoying life in one of the sunniest places on the planet.

It is here where Charles Darwin formulated much of his theory of evolution, a stunning breakthrough in unraveling the mysteries of life on planet Earth, the origins of living species, and natural selection.

The Blue Planet II production team will lead a talk on the new book and the much - loved popular BBC TV series and how they brought to life the different habitats of the oceanic world.

I want to see as much of this incredible planet we life on and learn as much as I possibly can in the time I have got.

On the surface this is once again a story about Rufus, the most self - centred tit in the universe, trying to get of the trash planet of Deponia and up to Elysium, while meeting Goal, who is the love of his life even if he's too much of a moron to see it.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

Suppose intelligence had arisen in much earlier life forms, and they determined that their continued emissions of oxygen would have significant consequences on the planet, so they decided to stop their emissions.

Just to encourage you Elizabeth — since my heart goes out to folks like yourself (like myself) who are going through times of wrenching grief and concern regarding the planet, there is much to suggest that even as the veneer of «business as usual» keeps on, we are reaching a profound turning point in terms of our collective awareness of the planet's needs and our place in the web of life.

As Edward O. Wilson explained here in laying out «Wilson's Law,» if we focus too much on the physical infrastructure that sustains us, without sustaining the planet's variegated veneer of life, we're in deep trouble.

Given persistent debt troubles, the deep divisions between haves and have nots, and wear and tear on the planet's living systems, there's much talk these days of new ways to define, gauge and nurture economic progress.

You are correct, because most of the people on this planet are scratching to make a living and feed their family and probably don't have an electrical source to even plug in a fridge much less a laptop computer.

How much time will humans waste making claims of too much uncertainty and calls for more study, before acting to try to save the life on this planet?

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

It seems to me that if we keep engaging in and hotly pursuing worldwide overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities, distinctly human activities that can not be sustained much longer on a planet with size, compostion and ecology of Earth, then the human species is a clear and present danger on our watch to future human well being, life as we know it, and environmental health.

For it was Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis which first popularised the idea that the biosphere is a massively complex nonlinear system that works to regulate many different subsystems towards a relatively narrow envelope of values necessary for the continuity of life on the planet through a tangle of negative feedbacks, in much the same way the human body maintains constant internal conditions necessary for life.

~ On Tuesday Mark hosted another Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet on immigration, offensive statuary, the deaths of South Africa's Winnie Mandela and Canada's Peter Munk, and much morOn Tuesday Mark hosted another Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet on immigration, offensive statuary, the deaths of South Africa's Winnie Mandela and Canada's Peter Munk, and much moron immigration, offensive statuary, the deaths of South Africa's Winnie Mandela and Canada's Peter Munk, and much more.

E.O. Wilson, the eminent biologist credited with bringing the term biodiversity into the public lexicon, spoke on the loss of species and how much we just don't know about the spectrum of life on the planet.