Sentences with phrase «needed for civilization»

I forgot: some people are alarmed by the prospect that CO2 controls will reduce the energy needed for civilization.

Specifically, the is imperative as our civil service is currently shaped with too many hands, with too little work and all lacking in the habits needed for civilization.

Not exact matches

«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The need of Big Business for a distinguished and de luxe monthly magazine, vividly portraying, interpreting and recording the Industrial Civilization, is apparent.

To affirm that life is good and to be grateful for it need not be to turn our backs on the achievements of civilization.

If our civilization is to be saved, we must have it or something like it, for man is the kind of creature who needs it.

We need the control of atomic energy for constructive ends, lest civilization and perhaps humanity itself cease to exist upon earth.

For example, he believes that history is important to our perception of movements in civilization, and even technology needs to be seen within an historical matrix (SMW 198).

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

They thought civilization needed religion because despite the danger that religion could turn into fanaticism or narrow - mindedness, it often prompted human beings to strive realistically and humbly for high ideals.

that «the world of reason and the world of faith — the world of secular rationality and the world of religious belief — need one another and should not be afraid to enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the good of our civilization».

I have always been drawn to Alasdair MacIntyre's prediction that we need «a new, doubtless very different Saint Benedict» that enables the great Christian tradition to be passed on, preserving the seeds for a new civilization to emerge after the moral poverty of today's liberalism leads us into dark, chaotic valleys.

I also believe, if God wants a civilization destroyed, he does not need me to do it for him.

And, Bob, yes we all need YHWH (God), for our deliverance, and guidance; something that Moses told to us from YHWH in Deut 32v45 - 47, doing the law of righteousness, and peace is our «life» and what was intended for us as the «real civilization» we could have been living instead.

After a long period in which the need of many for a sense of life's meaning seemed to be supplied by the progress of civilization or by the realization of national destiny, disillusionment with the half - gods has made itself felt.

Something like this, too, is what we need today — to have a song in our hearts as we see the United Nations crumbling, peace retreating to an improbable future, and God alone knows what awful fate in store for us and our proud civilization.

Education for a just and enduring future civilization needs to be radically reconceived.

The invention of agriculture, civilization, art, and culture, of nations, politics, education, and science — all of these developments exemplify the universe's impatience with monotony and urgent need for subtle shading and more intense enjoyment of beauty, now that it has reached the human phase of its unfolding.

But the chances of any nation actually doing all that needs to be done for such a civilization to emerge remain uncertain.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilizatiFor example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilizatifor your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

I'm not saying there could be a technological civilization in the ocean on Europa; you probably need fire for that.

Power stations would need to be placed along the path in order to pump laser energy into the beam and to focus it — a minor task for a Type III civilization.

Gilster points out that for this to be a SETI signal, the hypothetical civilization would need to be a «Kardashev Type II civilization» if it's blasting radio in all directions (an omnidirectional radio beacon) to get cosmic attention.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

I realize there is a need for a suspension of disbelief when it comes to watching a movie about giant mutated animals having a go at civilization, but it's hard to emotionally invest in a film when its leading man is this impervious to death.

Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence

Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers.

For dogs that need mroe work, consider limiting off - leash activities to areas such as the woods so that they can get some «off - leash» time to balance out the time in civilization where you need your dog to behave on a leash.

Some archaeologists have thought that the origins of civilization itself may be perceived in the need for institutionalized trade and commerce.

No trip to Lahaina is complete without a visit to Hilo Hattie, a one - stop shop for all the Hawaiian shirts, dresses, costume jewelry, trinkets, candy, nuts, and other Hawaiian souvenirs that you need to take back to civilization.

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What are his true motives and will he turn his back on civilization in their greatest time of need in revenge for wrongs past?

But if you love turn - based strategy and occasionally need a break from Civilization IV then Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power is the game for you.

Sid Meier's Civilization series is an AAA franchise that is often accessible for disabled gamers as a turn based strategy game that recognizes disability related needs such as large icons that don't depend on color and not requiring audio cues for gameplay communication.

The other thing that perhaps was addressed but that I might have missed (I'm hiking as I listen) is that for the hypotheses to be true, one similar to the present situation, one would expect that it wouldn't be scattered individual signals over millions of years you'd need to find but a simultaneous occurrence of most or all of these conditions in one (or more, for other possible civilizations) localized points in time.

I think Asimov (1980) speculated that intelligence might repeatedly arise and be destroyed on a habitable planet, so that another term would be needed for the Drake equation — fraction of time an intelligent civilization actually exists during the habitable period.

If we are to live on this planet for the long haul without transforming it into what seems like an entirely different planet, we will need to come to the understanding that we can no longer use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for the waste products of modern industrial civilization.

This is an exercise in what can be done, on a small scale, which can prepare civilization for a world with resource limits and a finite solar collecting area needed for plant growth.

Assuming a need for nuclear is also something of an argument against civilization, as is assuming a need for any limited resource.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

(B) We need to shut down all fossil fuel use essentially immediately for a decent chance to retain a recognizable civilization.

We need to shut down all fossil fuel use essentially immediately for a decent chance to retain a recognizable civilization.

Without civilization, there is no need for port cities on the seacoast.

The goals for developing renewable sources of energy by 2020 that are laid out in my book Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization are based not on what is conventionally believed to be politically feasible but on what I think is needed.

What «doubters, aka «skeptics», better understood as vicious propagandists need to know for sure... When sea levels rise, millions die, and civilization as we know it ceased to exist, your names will be entered alongside Goebels, Stalin, et al as monsters of history.

Human civilization does not need to collapse in order for X to negatively impact human and other forms of life, regardless of whether X is cancer or anthropogenic climate change.

I definitely think I need some kind of a prize for getting Mark Steyn to talk about sitztinkling as a metaphor for the flushing of Western civilization down the toilet.

If we are going to have a future, we will need hundreds of principled politicians like Tim Canova for Congress fighting for the national WWII - scale climate mobilization required to save civilization and the natural world.