Sentences with phrase «of human extinction»

The Walking Dead will serve our purposes for this particularized analysis, and we will consider what the television show and comic book series tell us about the retention of basic legal frameworks in a setting of destruction, anarchy, and the imminent possibility of human extinction.

Given all that remains unknown and what is at stake with climate change, is it irresponsible to rule out the possibility of human extinction in the coming decades or sooner?

Is the chance of human extinction 0.1 %?

Ok I accept that regarding both climate change and resource use you can never 100 % rule out the «possibility» of human extinction.

A large number of those surveyed were not too concerned about having to adapt to future technologies (41 %) but at least 35 % said they were somewhat concerned about the possible collapse of civilization in the future and 20 % said they were very concerned about the possibility of human extinction.

Not exact matches

On the contrary the fishing of sharks for their fins by humans has brought many species to the brink of extinction.

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

Reading Pierre Trudeau's remarks today, I'm struck by his foresight on issues like protection of fragile Arctic landscapes, and the capability of humans to push our species and others into extinction.

Sadly, the algebra of politics and economics is governed by this human shortcoming that will steer us to certain extinction in an order that is much shorter than possible.

The source of this extinction is speculated to be the result of human predation, a significant climate change, or a combination of both factors.

The founder of PayPal is on a mission to protect the human race from extinction.

A thought, a harmony, the achievement of a perfection in material things, some special nuance in human love, the exquisite complexity of a smile or a glance, every new embodiment of beauty appearing in me or around me on the human face of the earth: I cherish them all like children whose flesh I can not believe destined to complete extinction.

Unless we are totally blind to human situations as they really exist, we can not avoid the conclusion that without a revolutionary quality of living the human race is doomed to an endless process of unproductive suffering or even of total extinction.

Worse than just the threat of «extinction», this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.

But the teaching of Christ is that the ultimate destiny of human beings, as far as we can at present comprehend it, is not extinction or absorption into the Infinite, but the full development, the bringing to maturity, of sons of God.

He then reduces Jesus» death and resurrection to «a major evolutionary step [note the indefinite article] in the moral achievement of humanity»... «saving his fellow humans from extinction, their evolutionary fate, to share in the life of the Trinity».

By the beginning of the 20th century, human - induced extinctions were quickening to one species every year.

Even though we knowtoday that species occur rapidly following a ass extinction, the opposite of Nye's understanding of science, there remains the oxymoron of rapid, or random mutation evolution Dr. Gould's work in the area of random mutation evolution was very popular until the human genome project proved that Dog is Man's closest genome relatve.

On the human side, it is the always potential and often the actually realized sense of dependence upon the divine reality that sustains and (as traditional language would phrase it) «saves» such existence from triviality, meaninglessness, and extinction.

@Topher 3 breeding pairs of humans with all the males being first order relatives would lead to extinction within a few generations.

«3 breeding pairs of humans with all the males being first order relatives would lead to extinction within a few generations.

@pockets: So, what scares you is that someone who believes everyone on Earth was created for a reason, and who believes that all live is sacred, is given the power to choose whether or not to bring about the extinction of the human race.

Our politicians and the technicians of violence have shown great dedication to perfecting the means for human extinction.

Even though Rickover seems given over to the probability of nuclear extinction, he nevertheless seems to appreciate that weapons are not «neutral,» that their presence introduces a compelling temptation for human beings to use them.

Thus, there is the entropy at the atomic and molecular levels in the form of the loss of physical energy; then there is entropy in the form of the extinction of life at the biological level; next, there is the entropy appropriate for the level of human life, namely, human death.

First, with reference to the topic of the last section, it seems that Whitehead is doubtful that so sharp a line can be drawn between animals and humans that there is real warrant for affirming total extinction of all animals and survival of all humans.

Used creatively to fulfill the lives of persons, technology may help bring in an age of universal well - being; in an inadequate social context it may contribute to human degradation and enslavement, if not destruction or extinction.

Yet, it has contributed equally to the possibility of the extinction of human species and the planet through the discovery of weapons capable of omnicide and the technologies that devastate ecosystems.

The perception that Christians don't care about pollution, species extinction, and the social and human health consequences of land degradation can ultimately drive people away from Christ.

If saving the biosphere involved the extinction of the human species, that would not save the world I have in mind.

The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a species to satisfy human appetites.

The extinction of dinosaurs is based on the assumption that they all disappeared prior to humans, and that something catastrophic had to have happened to wipe them ALL out.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

The human race isn't in danger of extinction.

Death is «the extinction of this never - to - be repeated human being, for whom I had cared and for whom his survivors now grieve.»

It's one of the main contributing factors to what will be the extinction of the human race.

In view of the increasing vulnerability of contemporary societies to a broad range of social risks, including the possibility of total human extinction, the human rights regime needs to incorporate a broader concept of global human security.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

Global warming, population explosion, extinction of many species, maintaining the human environment — all this involves South Africa.

Haeckel divided human beings into ten races, of which the Caucasian was the highest and the primitives were doomed to extinction.

There are other parenting truths however that are so terrifying that popular parenting books don't dare mention them for fear that every reasonable adult on earth would immediately line up for voluntary sterilization if they knew and quickly cause the extinction of the human race.

Once we collectively understand our situation: the contribution made by humans to the degradation of the environment and the extinction of other species, or the impact consumers in the rich West have had, and continue to have, on the impoverishment of producers in developing countries, our proper response is to want to change things - and to change them radically.»

What happens if activists can tie human rights horrors like the this one with other consequences of the same kind of lawlessness, like the impending extinction of African elephants in the wild?

«Until around 100,000 years ago, a dispassionate observer would have no basis for predicting either the extinction of rival human species or Homo sapiens» current global ecological dominion,» Shea says.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size — by way of extinction — at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science.

«Unprecedented wave of large - mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans.»

«If climate were causing this, we would expect to see these extinction events either sometimes (diverging from) human migration across the globe or always lining up with clear climate events in the record,» said Lyons, assistant professor of biology at Nebraska.

The team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals — a group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans — was constant before the extinction event but exploded after, resulting in the varied groups of mammals we see today.