Sentences with phrase «on human catastrophes»

Attesting to Golub's incisive perspective on human catastrophes and his critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity, the exhibition will feature Golub's monumental and terrifying «Gigantomachy II» alongside works from his most important series, including «Pylon,» «Riot» and «White Squad.»

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To lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisis.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Bacteria far, far, far precede humans on Earth; they have survived numerous catastrophes; and they inhabit virtually every location on the Earth, including frozen Antarctica and super-hot thermal vents on the ocean floors.

In a recent book I read (Engaging the Powers), the author suggested that such a response is natural in light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basis.

I am just saying that usually, these sorts of disasters and catastrophes help spur the human race on toward a new level of understanding and unity, which make further advances easier.

I feel that most people don't fully understand how fickle mother nature can be and how utterly dependent we are for our day - to - day supplies on a network of human cooperation that could easily break down in the face of catastrophe.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

I had to be on the verge of utter catastrophe to begin to feel the effects of cognitive decline to do all this work and then feel the effects of all this healing that happens when you provide a healthy habitat for the human ecosystem and all this repair happens.

Despite a few catastrophes, only one happens to be shown on - screen, and the obviousness of the dummies used in place of humans doesn't allow this would - be disaster to pass the snicker test.

You may focus on the extinction of specific species and the natural catastrophes as side - effects of human actions.

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

Goode's paintings of the sea's blue depths are profoundly alluring, while human impact on the ocean threatens catastrophe.

Together, these objects not only attest to Golub's incisive perspective on the catastrophes that afflict human civilization but also demonstrate his sustained critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity.

Together, these paintings attest to Golub's incisive perspective on the catastrophes than afflict human civilization and his critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity.

There is so much very clear evidence of the devastating effects anthropogenic climate change will have on the natural environment and on us humans, that subjects of debate could just distract from the clear catastrophe we are heading towards.

E.g.: > multiple catastrophes... have already occurred >... > The collapse of human civilization, > the agonizing die - off of a large majority... > the mass extinction of most life on Earth, > are... catastrophic enough.

The fact that Christy and Pielke Sr. are scientists allows their skeptical positions on rapid GHG driven global warming to be even harder to deal with when I attempt to inform people that rapid GHG driven global warming is happening and that humans need to act quickly to reduce GHG emissions in order to delay and to reduce the catastrophe that lies ahead due to global warming.

Aug. 3, 9:12 a.m. Updated below In absorbing the horrors being inflicted on the people of southern Somalia by their Shabab Islamist tormenters, I was reminded of a meeting I covered in 2008 for an article called «Failed States, Disasters and «Preventive Action `'» and I was irked by recent efforts to link this catastrophe to human - driven climate change.

Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

What's refreshing is that the building human influence on the climate system is not being portrayed definitively as an unfolding catastrophe, with present - day events cast as the reason for action.

I assume these scientists are simply part of the environmentalist groupthink (another word for consensus) that's been going on for decades that human is headed for some environmental catastrophe.

Extra CO2 in the air from human sources is supposed to put us on a route to catastrophe but the message is a bit garbled.

Gavin Schmidt can parse his words and insist on his «interpretation» as much as he wishes but his meaning is absolutely clear — despite his «uncertainty» post made after «climategate» had outed him: that global warming is happening, that this is caused, in the main, by human made GHGs, that, if mankind does not halt these GHGs, catastrophe will follow and that this is «settled science» and the «consensus».

It is the promotion, by whatever means necessary, of the idea that we humans are endangering all life on Earth by burning excessive quantities of fossil fuels and altering the terrain to reduce the albedo of the Surface in a way that will lead to a «tipping point» and near - term catastrophe for all of us.

«The American president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that the failure to protect the climate inflicts on his country and the world through natural catastrophes like Katrina,» Germany's environmental minister, Jurgen Trittin, wrote in an opinion piece printed Aug. 30 in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.