Sentences with phrase «of global calamities»

Similarly, if multiple countries around the world were capable of deploying SRM, the system would be «resilient against all but the most disastrous of global calamities».

Set in 2060 AD, this post-apocalyptic adventure unfolds in the relentlessly - grim dystopia left in the wake of the series of global calamities that led to a total breakdown of civilization.

Though the year did not bring any sort of global calamity, there were certainly a number of alarming stories here on Earth — the record - breaking loss of Arctic sea ice and sudden fury of Hurricane Sandy in particular — along with some discoveries that illustrate the fragile beauty of this little planet.

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So Greider believes that global capitalism, since it not only allows but actually causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, «will probably experience a series of terrible events — wrenching calamities which are economic, or social or environmental in nature — before common sense can prevail».9

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

On a global level, the IPCC warns of a laundry list of calamities.

Huge amounts of CO2 spewed from colossal volcanic eruptions in Siberia may have turned the world's oceans dangerously acidic 252 million years ago, helping to drive a global environmental calamity

They are only for mindless amusement, and have much too much emphasis on who is the star researcher of the day, what horrible disease might be cured, and how science could solve some new global calamity.

In today's environment of economic volatility, increasing calamities (natural and man - made) and changing global dynamics, the Insurance sector needs to adopt training approaches that will help them equip their employees to manage these variables successfully.

Thanks to some supposed global calamity in the making, the stock market enters a period of insane volatility.

In this sense, Arkaba represents a microcosm of a global ecological calamity — the damage done by exotic species.

The project started under the Bush administration, and was used as a platform on which Tomaselli can creatively explore the global calamities and political nightmares of his lifetime.

But there's also the broadest, and most important, question: In the wake of this unfolding calamity, what is the best approach to building an energy policy for the long haul that fosters economic progress (as distinct from simple economic growth) while limiting environmental risks ranging from tainted beaches and fisheries to global warming?

Addendum Vaclav Smil, an essential touchstone on risk, resources and technology, has weighed in afresh in American Scientist with an overview of Japan's challenges in the wake of its multifaceted, and still unfolding, calamity and a must - read critique of «the latest infatuations» related to the global energy challenge.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

His handlers evidently did not buy assertions of some pollsters (which were challenged elsewhere) that voters had grown more impassioned about broader environmental issues, including global warming, as a result of the gulf petro - calamity.

3 biilion people more to feed, to drink, to work, to study... that's will be really a calamity... Seems to me that the most important thing in global warming is to reduce the number of us.

This adjacent plot of 5 - year temperature change versus 5 - year atmospheric CO2 level change is based on the most recent empirical evidence published by the government's GISS / NASA scientists (and they happen to be some of the largest proponents of chicken little global warming calamities).

Skeptics of Western global warming are really aware of obvious mistakes that fall within their particular areas of expertise and most skeptics take issue with the picture of impending calamity that global warming fearmongers always try to paint.

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

The suite of climate models that Western academia provide to us have been made de facto fortunetellers depicting what many of us believe to be a failed forecast of disastrous climate change calamity caused by industrial man in general and America in particular and I think such global warming fearmongers, really require a willing suspension of disbelief.»

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large - scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

«The current global warming alarm is simply the latest example of a common social phenomenon: an alarm based on unscientific forecasts of a calamity.

For those who see looming global warming as the paramount threat to the globe, there is a tendency to ascribe man's nurturing hand - through our ever - rising emissions of greenhouse gases - as being behind all recent weather calamities.

Although the world outlook looks gloomy, with environmental calamities, global warming and world hunger, Frances Moore Lappe, author of the 1971 bestseller Diet for a Small Planet, told a Cabrillo College audience Friday that there are still plenty of reasons to be hopeful.

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