Sentences with phrase «on human welfare»

The dominant effect on human welfare will be via decreased predictability.

Suppose the climate was gradually warming for entirely solar reasons, but we thought this had an adverse impact on human welfare broadly construed (say to include effects on biodiversity etc).

But none of the three big issues, or all of them together, will warrant our dismissal of other concerns that impinge on human welfare — especially one — suicide — that affects more people each year.

There are thousands of essays, articles and books dealing with population but «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot» provides a convincing new way of understanding the impacts of population size on human welfare and nature.

But it strikes me that your book is extremely humanist, centered on human welfare.

News old and new from U.S.A. (e.g. Sandy) exemplify effects on human welfare.

As it turned out, of course, Asia more than doubled in size and set off a new industrial revolution whose impact on human welfare has been of revolutionary proportions by virtually any measure: infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy, caloric intake, etc..

Jenkins proposes to supersede the common argument in environmental ethics between those whose emphasis is on human welfare («anthropocentrism») and those concerned to give the natural world independent moral standing («non-anthropocentrism» he usually calls it, though «ecocentrism» or «biocentrism» will do).

The effects on human welfare are opposite.