Sentences with phrase «people on the planet as»

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

There were only one billion people on the planet as recently as the turn of the 19th century and only a few hundred thousand just 10,000 years ago.

There are few people on the planet as fit as ultra-distance endurance athlete Rich Roll.

What reasonable person who is paying attention to the world around them and is free from the denial and economic fundamentalism that surrounds us isn't aware on some level that: — the phrase «sustainable growth» is an oxymoron — there are about 4 times as many people on this planet as it can sustain — All this stuff (including food) depends on cheap oil, which we are out of — Every ton of CO2 is further decreasing what the planet can sustain, and — We're teaching the world to be as shallow and dysfunctional as we are.

«According to some estimates, there are already almost as many environmentally displaced people on the planet as traditional refugees,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Not exact matches

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, DilberAs it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilberas, Dilbert.

Not Business As Usual (the entire hour - long doc is below if you want to give it a view) asks viewers to consider not just a long - term view of how to build a business, but also a holistic — or «conscious» — consideration of how one's business affects the people involved in it, and the planet it relies on to run.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

He will first cite Microsoft's mission to «empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more» and acknowledge his own beginnings in India as a sign of the power of technology to democratize society.

As you would imagine, when you are one of the fifteen hundred people on planet Earth with a net worth of a billion dollars, you get access to almost everyone!

«Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics, as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet.»

I refer to this as «triple bottom - line thinking» — a focus on people, the planet and profit.

As it happened, yes, we were evidently among the only sane people on the planet.

With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

If those people were as engaged as online World Cup viewers — and I'd venture that, on average, they were less engaged than people watching the most popular sporting event on the planet — those 10.7 million digital views would translate into an average - minute TV audience of 28,563 persons.

And as Jesus told them, his seed, people believing him then, the 12 apostles, that would grow like a mustard seed in to a huge tree... which it did, 33 % of the 7 billion people on the planet believe Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, performed miracles using the Holy Spirit, and later sent the Holy Spirit to the followers after dying on the cross and raising again on the 3rd day of being in the hands of sinful men.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

But why should sense even count, i mean you people believe that you are special and get to life forever compared to all the other creatures on this planet — such arrogance and pride — as the old saying goes, this will be your downfall!

Well seeing as only 33 % of people on this planet believe in your version of a god, that means 4.6 billion people (and counting) are going to be burned in hell by your god.

If you can't extend equal rights to every single person on this planet, then you are part of the problem as regards the rights of others.

Before it and after it, Jesus is drowning all the people on the planet, casting disobedient people into outer darkness and enjoying the smoke of tormented believers as it rises up before him for all eternity.

He subjugated other people under him as slaves, and he tried to reverse God's will on the planet.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.

Just fyi, I am not a religious person and I believe everyone on this planet has the right to live their life as they see fit as long as they are not hurting others.

Christians should be the most fun - loving and joyous people on the planet, because not only do we have a bright future, we've got a great present as well.

As much as I've tried, and tried I have, I can not dismiss or deny this principle that has infected and affected every person and thing on this planeAs much as I've tried, and tried I have, I can not dismiss or deny this principle that has infected and affected every person and thing on this planeas I've tried, and tried I have, I can not dismiss or deny this principle that has infected and affected every person and thing on this planet.

If religious people stay out of politics and other aspects of public interest then I would say they are free to do as they please, but when they want to push their beliefs on the rest us and completely disregard the facts at the expense of our health and our planet then they become dangerous and must be challenged.

I use Russia as an example because it is so much in the news and on my heart, but every person on the planet is precious to God.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

as we advance in technology and science the fact remains that no special person or being put us on this planet.

I can't find any other place on this planet where people have the same faith in Christ as I do.

I still say corruptors on this planet are although called Businessmen but they are as equal as terrorists and threatening the lives of more people or life on earth even more than terrorists... but how come we have not seen those repent and oppologise?

Maybe people are not «fence - sitting», as you so inelegantly stated, but rather like myself have made a firm intelligent decision that religions are the cause of some of the most devastating periods in man's brief history on this planet and hopefully one day we will get past the need to use religions as a crutch for a weak mind and instead select lifestyles such as Buddhism to evolve.

mike: if there may be as many definitions of god as people on the planet, what gives anyone (including you or i) the right to define god?

He always treated me as if he thought I was the smartest, most amazing person on the planet.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

No group of people has done as much good for the planet — and yet the blind followers of this new «no religion except what is currently politically correct» religion are ready to hang any Christian on the closest tree.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

«These people,» Solzhenitsyn remarks, «who had experienced on their own hides twenty - four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: That nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self - styled Soviet regime.»

As it stands, they among the most, hateful, selfish, hypocritical, corrupt people on the planet.

As Taylor documents, over 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., which works out to a per capita rate up to ten times higher than most other countries on the planet, including China and Russia.

The typical Western man probably feels sure that angels, devils, and spirits do not exist in reality but only as figments in deluded imaginations, but he is not ashamed to admit that he does not yet know whether there are such entities as people on other planets.

I also believe that the Bible is meant to be taken as allegory, not scientific fact, and that young earth creationists and evolution deniers are among the dumbest people on the planet.

The human polytheists, in practice, have a great deal in common with the Abrahamic monotheists of Planet Earth: They're a people of the book, divided between fundamentalists who take the sacred scrolls literally and more latitudinarian believers who don't, and divided, as well, on all the culture - war questions — notably abortion — that divide our own semi-Christian West.

Social and environmental responsibility are critical elements of Nutiva's culture and business, as the company is committed to nourishing people by providing the purest quality product and reducing negative impacts on the planet.

Diners across the planet will be tucking into a World Meatless Lunch today, as the event returns to raise awareness of the importance of cutting down on the amount of meat we eat, for the sake of people and planet.

Barcelona joins cities such as Bordeaux, Oslo, New York and Vancouver in encouraging citizens to cut down on their meat consumption for the the sake of people and planet.

They're as good as anybody on the planet in terms of taking a strategy in terms of engaging people and making it work.»