Sentences with phrase «now inhabit the planet»

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If a mother can be arrested for leaving her child in a car, never out of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about children allowed to sail and camp alone for an entire summer, and stay out all night on the water, those children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another planet, and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»

Such gargantuan telescopes would build on the technologies now being developed by Breakthrough and other organizations, and would offer hope of detecting biosignatures and other gases in planets» atmospheres to reveal whether they are habitable — or even inhabited.

If we keep doing as we do now and getting what we get now, is it possible that the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit will soon reach a point when it is no longer possible for Earth's resources and ecosystem services to sustain either life as we know it or the human species?

At least to me, what is also evident is this: concerns like long - term human well being, biodiversity protection and the maintenance of the integrity of this tiny planet we inhabit are now at odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all else.

Now let us look at the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit.

Looking at the surface of the planet, it may seem ridiculous to suggest that there is a water shortage given that 70 % of the planet is covered in water, but when you note that only 3 % of this is freshwater and only 1 % of this is suitable for humans, now it becomes way more difficult to stretch those resources among the more than 6 billion people that inhabit this planet.