Sentences with phrase «of planetary civilization»

It is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.

Because the fossil fuel companies are hell bent on discovering, extracting and selling as much oil, coal and gas as they can, the industry should be regarded as «Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization,» McKibben wrote.

The fossil fuel industry «is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.»

This new paradigm seeks to change the character of planetary civilization, validating cultural cross-fertilization, economic connectedness, and the rights of communities to meet global responsibilities in diverse ways.

The global economic crisis is actually a crisis of planetary civilization.

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It is simply that I have decided that the only theological work worth doing at the moment is that which contributes toward the creation of a vision and a set of values relevant to the transformation required for civilization to survive and move into the promise of the planetary society.

Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary unity of civilizations with what he describes as the increasing convergence of men in a consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years more and more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.

But it has become plain (in particular since the last war) that however urgent may be the planetary pressures driving us to unite, they can not operate effectively in the long run except under certain psychic conditions, some of which arise out of the human neo-mystique to be discussed in the next paragraph, but the rest of which merely recall and re-express, with a precise biological foundation, the broad lines of the empirical and traditional Ethics which has been evolved in some ten millennia of civilization.

Today, when our very planetary civilization is endangered by human irresponsibility, I see no other way to save it than through a general awakening and cultivation of the sense of responsibility people have for the affairs of this world.»

Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.

Drake multiplied the number of sunlike stars in our galaxy that form each year by a handful of variables: the fraction of those stars that have planets; the number of planets per planetary system where life could exist; the fraction of habitable planets where life actually arises; the fraction of those where intelligence emerges; the fraction of intelligent species that develop interstellar communication; and finally, the average length of time that those communicating civilizations survive.

Explore the planetary ruins and encounter other surviving factions that have each evolved in their own way, as you unravel the history of a shattered civilization.

Can our common sense prevail to heal the earth, vanquish poverty, and create a planetary civilization of secure, just, and diverse places?

We dialogued about the role of current technological revolutions as greatest transition in human history, with the creation of an emergent planetary civilization.

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Expand the Galactic Civilizations II universe with Terror Stars, unique technology trees per civilization, Map editors, Custom Scenario makers, campaign editors, new types of ships, new planetary improvements, and much more!

Our top planetary mission for the foreseeable future must be to stop destroying the one climate hospitable to the one civilization that we know of in the entire galaxy.

Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.

«We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential... the earth has a fever.

The key science question for citizens and their representatives is not whether most recent warming is man - made but whether climate change, as Al Gore HAS put it, is a «planetary emergency... that threatens the survival of civilization and the habitability of the Earth.»

The vision is one of a diverse, inclusive, and sophisticated planetary civilization, with a «regenerative» and thus genuinely sustainable economy.7

So all these other discussions of «what we can or should do» are just a charade, moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they will go on and on and on like a Celine Dion song until planetary habitability declines so badly that civilization collapses anyway from our inactions and repeated mistakes.

We are then likely caught in the need for geo - engineering for the foreseeable future, and if we stop because of a decline in our civilization (dark age) then we face a radically different planetary environment that could pound us down further.

The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health recognizes that human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resources.

With all due respect to Leif and to Brow, the planetary theory of climate change is as old as the civilizations are.

nicola scafetta says: July 27, 2011 at 9:57 am With all due respect to Leif and to Brown, the planetary theory of climate change is as old as the civilizations are.

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

«The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system» — Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking Environmentalism

A theory on why we don't see more life (much less alien civilizations) argues that life might arise easily, but go extinct within a billion years of planetary formation.

Humans have been changing Earth's landscapes at globally significant levels for at least 3000 years, and doing so by increasingly productive and efficient means, according to our new research challenging the claim that use of land by industrial civilization is destroying planetary ecology at an accelerating pace.