Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens either»

Politicians are unwilling to seek meaningful emission targets, corporations are fundamentally committed to economic growth at all costs, and even ordinary citizens refuse to sacrifice their consumer lives for the promise of a stable climate.

Regarding my own presentation two days ago, my opening point was to inspire the audience to ask tough questions like I do, even if they have no science expertise, and I was going to follow that with a brief mention of how ordinary citizens know what contradictory climate science assessments look like and how their growing knowledge about those increasingly undermines the stability of the idea of man - caused global warming.

Ordinary citizens have to make decisions based on less than expert understanding all the time — every time they vote and every time they serve on a jury.

What is less clear is what we, as ordinary citizens, can do in the face of the powerful, relentless forces of corrupted science, to set things right.

This 11 minute video examines why politicians, unlike many ordinary citizens, may not rely upon their own uninformed opinion on climate change science as a basis for refusing to support climate change policies.

No, this bill is not a reasonable first step, but a disastrous trap that would inhibit meaningful action while providing windfall profits to serial polluters, picking the pockets of ordinary citizens.

The video argues that politicians have responsibilities that ordinary citizens do not have to protect others from harms that their constituents are causing others.

The intrusion of misleading information into the lives of ordinary citizens is worldwide, and is transmitted by once prestigious news organizations, like BBC.

Ordinary citizens have been force - fed a diet of dubious climate claims.

This is so because government officials, unlike ordinary citizens, have the power to prevent or minimize great harms to millions of people around the world that mainstream scientists have concluded that their constituents or governments that they represent are causing or contributing to.

But you'll be as far away as ever from persuading the millions of ordinary citizens desensitized by two decades of shrieking hysteria.

My own research on «debiasing» cultural cognition rests on the premise that identity - protective cognition (a cousin of implicit social cognition) disappoints normative commitments that ordinary citizens have.

This conquest of democratic governments was assisted by scientists, educators and news reporters who openly promoted items (1 - 4) of the common interests of ordinary citizens, while their paymasters quietly took away items (5,6).

Long considered one of Kenya's most prominent and outspoken activists, Maathai, who also spent a term in Parliament, has advocated for ordinary citizens to participate in environmental stewardship.

That might include regional fishery management organizations, researchers and ordinary citizens.

Granted, that is not always possible, but the incredible uptake of sustainable generation by ordinary citizens and the tiny share of traditional utilities tell an important story.

Are you enthralled or appalled by the idea of ordinary citizens being involved in reviewing scientists» work?

What is obvious from the recent setbacks is that the government seems to be interested in concerns raised by polluting industries more than ordinary citizens suffering in smog.

Now, Mr. Obama tells us, unlike what we've heard from Edward Snowden, that the US govt never spies on ordinary citizens....

While institutions ranging from the Rockefeller Foundation to the World Council of Churches have been rethinking their investments in fossil fuels of late, I'd hazard a guess that many of us ordinary citizens have not put as much thought into our own savings and pensions.

But there is reason to hope: many ordinary citizens desire to make positive change in their daily lives, in their communities, and in the world at large.

I maintain that all the «players» — from the bankers to the politicians to the editors to the ordinary citizens — will continue to not get it as the disarray accelerates and families and communities are blown apart by economic loss.

When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, U.S. PIRG speaks up and takes action.

Can we build for example a non-intermittent solar infrastructure with heated salt storage and sufficient grid capacity without pricing power beyond the means of ordinary citizens and businesses?

One of TheCityFix.com's contributors, Benjamin de la Pena, wrote a provocative post about pedicabs — what are often referred to as «road roaches» — as a viable form of green transport if urban planners and ordinary citizens would take it seriously.

Today, aided by the power of digital media, thousands of artists, activists, and ordinary citizens across the world — and the internet — routinely reverse the power of advertising, transforming ads and logos into a global conversation between corporation and consumer.

«The heroes of this story are people like lawyer Joel Kupferman and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol... each refused to be lulled by the failures of most of the New York media to report what was actually happening; each helped to pierce the false claims of government officials and to validate the concerns of rescue workers and ordinary citizens, to confirm to them that they were not imagining their ailments.»

Over more than 45 years of practice, Sirkin has consistently defended the free speech and constitutional rights of countless individuals and businesses, including adult entertainment establishments, museums, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens in all types of cases.

But the rights of ordinary citizens have always been much on Ward's mind - and never more so than in the last year, when he personally went through the process of becoming a United States citizen.

Featuring portraits of subjects ranging from civil rights icon Malcolm X to staunch segregationist George Wallace, as well as powerful politicians, ordinary citizens, young idealists and elderly pacifists, the photographs question how Americans understand race relations, their own identities and the identities and civil rights of others.

In a nice twist ordinary citizens only need one character to keep them in check, but security guards and other types of NPC require two, otherwise after a short amount of time they'll try to fight back, potentially forcing you to open fire.

The depiction of the slave catcher's dog in stage re-enactments of UNCLE TOM»S CABIN made him an object of dread to ordinary citizens, and an object of attraction to dog owners who wanted dogs for anti-social purposes.

Eleven states have passed laws allowing ordinary citizens to intercede to save dogs (or any other pet) by breaking a window (if need be)...

Trap - Neuter - Return is still controversial and misunderstood by many, including government officials, ordinary citizens and even some animal welfare practitioners.

And one by one states are stepping up to allow ordinary citizens to legally break into cars - without retribution...

Do news accounts of cats killing a million birds a day turn ordinary citizens into Jim Stevensons?

She understood the deep connection between local and global problems, and she helped give ordinary citizens a voice.

That question is on the lips of not just ordinary citizens of the world, not just mums and dads and brothers and sisters and cousins and mates who have for the better part of two weeks been agonizing and importuning Divinity for answers; demanding of the super-minds that transcend super-conductors and super eyes in the dark skies; the nerds, the geeks, the Hollywood super-creators of holocaust and great - endings to give them answers to that unanswered question on the lips of every human who has access to the super-communication industry... where in the heck is Flight 370?

But the way they responded to the extraordinary circumstances of life on the new frontier, politics, and war made heroes of these ordinary citizens.

American Gods envisions a world in which the old gods co-exist with the ordinary citizens of the world.

Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

Both Mohamed and Morgan, along with a host of ordinary citizens and neurological and psychological experts, form the backbone of Sasha Abramsky's latest book Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.

This novel was the first I've read that invited me to empathize with the experience of some ordinary citizens of Germany during and after WW2.

How does their unique relationship to time set them apart from ordinary citizens?

If, in this poignant account, the villains are the «Big Vegetables» (Les Grosses Légumes)-- the fat cats who benefited from Mobutu's largesse — the heroes are the ordinary citizens trapped in a parody of a state.

David France's How to Survive a Plague is now enabling me to understand how ordinary citizens respond to a fast - moving, unprecedented affliction that none could have anticipated.

While this is an improvement for a work truck, undoubtedly too many ordinary citizens will continue to assume their use of a gas guzzler is justified and will purchase one of these, thinking they can claim they are «green»...

At least $ 600 billion in assets currently invested by California's 80 different public employee pension funds, earning financial interests billions in management fees and commissions every year, and guaranteeing public employees retirement packages that ordinary citizens can only dream of.

Last summer, as he opened a convening of education organizations which had responded to a call for innovative designs to assess student and school performance, he reflected on the important role of ordinary citizens and organizations in civil society had to helping educational institutions advance their democratic goals.