Sentences with phrase «of human economic activities»

It claimed with over 90 % certainty that CO2 was increasing because of human economic activities and was almost the sole cause of temperature increase.

But this extraordinarily rich and fragile deep - sea life is under threat from a range of human economic activities.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

Earth Formations and the impact of human economic activity on the terrestrial landscape are at the heart Michele Mathison's new exhibition States of Emergence.

Soil, vegetation, and natural drainage, wind, and precipitation patterns become extremely important in determining the kind and quality of human economic activity.

The CLOUD experiment could then turn into an embarrassment for the many governments funding CERN, each of which had committed enormous political and economic capital to ameliorating the alleged effects of human economic activity on the climate of our planet.

The latest research indicates massive quantitative acceleration of human economic activity around 1950, including «an explosive growth of fossil fuel use,» according to environmental - sciences professor James Hansen and co-authors in an article in Science.

Paul Norton: the concept of ecological or biophysical limits to the scale of human economic activity, who are uncritical optimists about technology

Not exact matches

(This increased economic activity sometimes comes at the expense of human and environmental health, but that's a different discussion).

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

Many careful observers believe that human economic activity is already at an unsustainable level in many parts of the world and even globally, as indicated by global warming.

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

-LSB-...] the true theme of the encyclical is the human subject as it stands behind economic activity and determines it.»

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

Even radical economists are reluctant to offer a non-numerical integration of economic activity with the rest of the human condition.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

First used to refer to the new global economy, it now encompasses the great new phenomenon of our time — the process by which all scientific, cultural, religious and economic human activity is being integrated into one worldwide network.

Its field of activity may be literary, scientific, religious, political, economic, cultural, athletic, and so on, across the whole spectrum of human social activities.

Confined within the geometrically restricted surface of the globe, which is steadily reduced as their own radius of activity increases, the human particles do not merely multiply in numbers at an increasing rate, but through contact with one another automatically develop around themselves an ever denser tangle of economic and social relationships.

Instead of destroying all boundaries for the sake of one homogeneous global market, it calls for the subordination of economic activity to the building up of human community, and community with the natural environment as well.

Throughout most of human history, growth in economic activity has been very low.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

The economic aspect of the world limits itself to one aspect of human activity omitting a very great deal.

The first is that free economic activity is both a fundamental expression of human freedom and, more powerfully, a fundamental mechanism for self - realization.

Intertidal zones are also rapidly deteriorating due to human activities, with coral reefs of critical ecological, cultural and economic importance, already under serious threat, and some reefs having already been lost, especially in South and South - East Asia.

In a research essay to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Economic Entomology, Robert Owen argues that human activity is a key driver in the spread of pathogens afflicting the European honey bee (Apis mellifera)-- the species primarily responsible for pollination and honey production around the world — and recommends a series of collective actions necessary to stem their spread.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

- Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water

Multiple questions one each of the following topics and sub-topics: Business activity 1.1 The role of business enterprise and entrepreneurship 1.2 Business planning 1.3 Business ownership 1.4 Business aims and objectives 1.5 Stakeholders in business 1.6 business growth Marketing 2.1 The role of marketing 2.2 Market research 2.3 Market segmentation 2.4 The marketing mix People 3.1 The role of human resources 3.2 Organisational structures and different ways of working 3.3 Communication in business 3.4 Recruitment and selection 3.5 Motivation and retention 3.6 Training and development 3.7 Employment law Operations 4.1 Production processes 4.2 Quality of goods and services 4.3 The sales process and customer service 4.4 Consumer law 4.5 Business location 4.6 Working with suppliers Finance 5.1 The role of the finance function 5.2 Sources of finance 5.3 Revenue, costs, profit and loss 5.4 Break - even 5.5 Cash and cash flow Influences on business 6.1 Ethical and environmental considerations 6.2 The economic climate 6.3 Globalisation

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

Human activity, and the turns of economic booms and busts, are insinuated throughout the works as artifacts — semi-manicured yards, chain link fences, power lines, pavement — hidden among rich vegetation; subjects that are treated as background.

Kazma's oeuvre constitutes a kind of archive of human activity, raising fundamental questions about it in the economic, industrial, scientific, medical, social and artistic spheres.

Essentially, all they said is that they acknowledge that global warming is due to unspecified human activities, that it will have ecological consequences (no mention of economic consequences, other than the insinuation that taking action of global warming might threaten economic growth), and that coordinated global action is required, but that economic growth and energy security must be taken into account, and that they'll meet to talk about it again.

However, there are certainly forms of «economic activity» that don't require either human population growth, or increased use of physical resources.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

It appears that at the base of certain primary human activities now overspreading Earth is an «economic engine» that drives human action and requires unregulated human consumption, production and propagation for its very existence.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

Alternatively, we could describe climate change as one aspect of a system of human growth (in population, energy use, resource use, economic activity, etc) and the many ways in which that growth is constrained on a finite planet.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Climate change is driven by human activity — chiefly the combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use — and forests and other natural ecosystems play a powerful role in both soaking up the greenhouse gases released by human economic activity and at the same time sheltering many of the other 10 million or so species that share the planet.

They claim that economic activity is the key to human production of CO2, which causes warming.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

But don't let the Times» Oct. 10 report on the economic upside of Arctic melting confuse you — there still isn't any evidence that human activity is melting the polar regions.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

Breakthrough launched their Ecomodernism manifesto in London on the morning of September 24, arguing that through science, technology and development, human impacts on the natural world can be decoupled from economic activity.

Over the last 50 years, climate scientists have built an increasingly clear picture of how the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that arise from human economic activity are changing the Earth's climate.

For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed how the mainstream scientific position, namely that GHG emissions from human economic activities are causing the Earth to warm, is coherent and accounts for the available evidence.

Changes in socio - economic activities and modes of human response to climate change, including warming, are just beginning to be systematically documented in the cryosphere (MacDonald et al., 1997; Krupnik and Jolly, 2002; Huntington and Fox, 2004; Community of Arctic Bay et al., 2005).