Sentences with phrase «own ecological problems»

We are confronting social, technological and ecological problems unimaginable to our ancestors.

Political theologians, on the other hand, have tended either to ignore ecological problems altogether or to regard them as expressions of unresolved political or economic problems.

China's ecological problems are as massive and visible as those of any country anywhere.

In analyzing this basic Gyn / Ecological problem, we should struggle to detect whatever obstacles we can find, both internal and external, to this dis - covering of the Self.

According to Rubin, the framework that popularizers have established for discussing ecological problems leads people to think of their solutions in wide - ranging terms.

It goes without saying I don't agree with that (although it's certainly true that many ecological problems do turn out to have technological solutions).

The speed with which he turns from the ecological problem to the social one arouses this suspicion.

All of the successful future paths he finds require what he calls a «war on ecological problems.»

all these are, partially or completely, concerned with the ecological problems of the human species.

Only when we get it into our collective head that the basic problem confronting twentieth - century man is an ecological problem will our politics improve.

It seems to me that there is no philosophy today which is better equipped than process thought to link together ethical and ecological problems.

But if we ask economists for solutions to ecological problems, the results are appalling.

I have mentioned ecological problems.

That presents huge ecological problems for the future.

Dr. Joseph Needham and Dr. W.H. Thorpe, Cambridge authorities on biochemistry and zoology; Dr. A.R. Peacocke, biologist in Cambridge; Professor L.C. Birch, Australian expert on evolutionary changes in the realm of living matter; and Ian Barbour, American physicist, whose special interest has lately been turned toward the ecological problem — these are but a few of the many who have publicly avowed their acceptance of a process way of looking at humankind and the world.

Only Christ therefore is the ultimate answer to the personal, social and even ecological problems of the cosmos in which we live.

To do this we need to clarify for ourselves some of the perspectives on the ecological problems.

The finger - pointing at packaging as the main culprit of the country's ecological problems didn't happen in force until the late 1980s.

Americans celebrated their first Earth Day in 1970, and became aware of some of our ecological problems such as pollution and littering through various media outlets.

In a world that is full of ecological problems it's not ethical to eat so much meat.

Whoever's in charge come May 8th, unless they put climate change at the heart of their programme for office the UK will be building up huge economic and ecological problems for the future.

They don't deal with the ecological problems of modern agriculture, like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

The authors speculate that many other ecological problems could also erupt from changes in climate.

«This should be envisaged as an ecological problem — ecology for our gut,» he explains.

Further, outside their native ranges, these honeybees often escape to become highly successful ferals, again generating ecological problems.

In Isaac Asimov's short story «-- That Thou Art Mindful of Him,» engineers attempt to acclimate humans to robots by creating robots that look like birds and insects and also detect and correct ecological problems.

These ecological problems are a new frontier for supercomputing, says John Cobb, a principal investigator for TeraGrid at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and a co-investigator for DataONE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to gather and harmonize ecological and environmental data sets.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

One - child policies and plagues that cut the population won't be enough to fix our ecological problems, models suggest.

«But that's not an ecological problem,» she says.

«This could create substantial ecological problems in the Arctic, including habitat range changes and loss of biodiversity.»

So, toads ARE an ecological problem - but only for a fairly small number of species (the big predators) and fortunately, Queensland populations of many of those species (like yellow - spotted goannas and northern quolls) are recovering, a few decades after the toads arrived and really reduced the predator numbers.

RNA - guided gene drives based on CRISPR / Cas9 have generated considerable excitement as a potential means of addressing otherwise intractable ecological problems.

RNA - guided gene drive elements could address many ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the likelihood of global spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use.

Some ecological problems are so widely distributed geographically that addressing them may require global gene drive systems.

Plastic causes health and ecological problems and disrupts hormones.

«Solutions to many of our ecological problems lie in an approach that celebrates, empowers, and nurtures the cultural, artistic, historical and spiritual resources of each local community and region.

Wild boar are a HUGE ecological problem, and dogs are absolutely necessary to hunt them down.

Unlike Playa del Carmen and Cancun, which have started to suffer from ecological problems, this area of Tulum is dedicated to keeping the area just as it is for as long as possible.

Applying a 19th century look and feel to a 21st century ecological problem.

Through multidisciplinary arts, community engagement exercises, and urban design practices she applies an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving.

Together, the works announce the desiderata prevalent in Olitski's and Caro's circle, when serious, ambitious art was not expected to solve political, social, or ecological problems but, rather, was valued for addressing emotions and intellect wordlessly, through the eye.

Pumping large quantities of CO2 underground is not only costly but also will cause serious ecological problems.

And while ecological problems in the context of a vast coherent economy are not new — Rome knew them, IIRC — the scale is unprecedented.

Uncertainty, and the endless litany of ecological problems caused by rampant «development», are reasons to be more, not less, vigilant.

From one extreme, some maintain at all costs the myth of progress and say that the ecological problems will be solved simply by new technical applications, not by ethical considerations or fundamental changes.

One of the best ways to combat the apathetic responses to ecological problems is to tell people how and why it affects them.

3500 years ago Loa Tzu said that the greedy cause ecological problems.