Sentences with phrase «places of human habitation»

* «We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,» biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.

«We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.»

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Centrally, it engages the ways in which his landscape paintings, focusing on the ecologies of California, engage major human concerns about place, space, and habitation.

Predictable, woefully inadequate, jaded, pitiful, unconscionable leadership — whose failure to respond ably to the requirements of practical biophysical reality of the relatively small planet God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm — could have profound adverse implications for the future of our children, for biodiversity and the environment, for Earth as a fit place for human habitation and life as we know it.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

To longer follow an obsolete course of continuous, seemingly endless economic expansion will result in further biodiversity loss, even greater degradation of the environment and, perhaps, the irreversible destruction of the planet as a fit place for human habitation.

For too many leaders, the preservation of our wondrous planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by coming generations is kept «out of sight, out of mind.»

Surely the reasonable and sensible embrace of a «beautiful, low - consumption lifestyle» for the sake of a better life for a democratic majority of people; for the promotion of global biodiversity; for the protection of the environment; and for the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation, could be one of the most powerfully sustainable and immediately effective behavioral changes the leaders of the family of humanity have made in a very long time.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

As things now stand, the unrestrained and rampant expansion of the artificially designed, manmade global economy can be seen degrading the environment, dissipating natural resources and diminishing the capacity of Earth to provide a fit place for human habitation.

By «giving» nature rights, we preserve and protect nature from the being ravaged by unrestrained overconsumption, unbridled overproduction and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species that are overspreading the surface of Earth in our time and threatening our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children and coming generations.

Your environment could be relentlessly degraded, your natural resources may have been recklessly dissipated and the capacity of Earth to serve as a fit place for human habitation dangerously diminished.

Whatever the reasons for our spectacular failure to communicate meaningfully and sensibly about what somehow could be real about the workings of the Earth and the placement of the human species within the natural order of living things, these circumstances are incredible and present the human family with a potentially colossal threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

To do otherwise and, by so doing, choose willfully and foolishly to ignore the practical requirements of biophysical reality runs the risk of putting life as we know it and our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation in peril, even in these early years of Century XXI.

One of the greatest places to be inspired for art is smack in the middle of nature, with no other evidence of human habitation.