Sentences with phrase «planetary home»

Sure, it's nowhere nearly as nice as our current planetary home, but perhaps with a little work we could live there.

The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.

Perhaps our leaders, who are supposed to be providing reasonable and sensible leadership — not primrose paths to the future — will consider how recklessly expanding production and industrialization activities of the human species in our time could soon become unsustainable in this wondrous planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit.............

Perhaps leaders are now called upon to lead by reasonably and sensibly limiting the global growth of human numbers, per capita consumption and endlessly expanding production capabitities so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit the time it requires for self - renewal.

After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

In a forthcoming post, I will provide my own thoughts on the necessity for reducing the unsustainable increase in absolute global human population numbers as well as on the need for recognizing «OCPF» as the most powerful means of re-establishing the family of humanity as a sustainable species within the biophysical framework of our wondrous, finite planetary home.

It does appear to me we have constructed an endlessly - expanding, leviathan - like global political economy that is on the verge of unsustainability in the the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home we inhabit.

Perhaps humankind is called upon to regulate the global growth of its numbers, its per capita consumption and its propagation so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home the time it requires to renew itself.

All concerned with the future of humanity must try to bring into being a new type of person, whose loyalty to humankind and to our planetary home is primary.

With Earth's temperature climbing in concert with rising emissions of carbon dioxide (and eight of the hottest years on record occurring in the last decade), we appear to have begun a vast, unplanned experiment with our planetary home.

Too many of our leaders wish to live in the world as if our planetary home is unlimited, which it is not; they willfully serve as proud illustrators of how to live large and unbound, miraculously freed from the necessity of accepting either human limits or Earth's limitations with regard to the unchecked growth of human consumption / production / propagation activities, which billions of human beings can not do much longer, I suppose.

If so colossal a human presence can be sustained on Earth, what is likely to be the quality of life of the people in our planetary home in the middle of Century XXI?

Because the planetary home we inhabit is finite, the Earth's relatively small size and make - up present the family of humanity with limitations to the growth of its population size, its consumption of resources and the expansion of the manmade global economy.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

In 1830, less than 1 billion people inhabited our planetary home.

The evidence from David Pimentel, Ph.D., and Russell Hopfenberg, Ph.D., indicate something simple: more food in the world equals more people on the planet; less food distributed worldwide equals less people in our planetary home; and in any and cases, no food equals no people.

Billions of human beings — some overconsuming, others overproducing and still others overpopulating the Earth — are ruining our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation and life as we know it.

Given the obvious, unmanageable problems we are having around the world today, what do you think our planetary home will look like in 2050 when 9 + billion people -LCB- plus other surviving animal species) are dumping on the surface of Earth?

What I was taught in childhood leads me to want live by my wits and not await some dreadful worldwide devastation or horrific widespread affliction to befall humanity and life as we know it that would serve, at least temporarily, to relieve humankind (and me personally) of responsibility for its (and my) overgrowth activities, the ones now overspreading the surface of our planetary home.

How much longer can the Earth be reasonably and sensibly expected to sustain the colossal, unbridled growth of human consumption, production and propagation activities now overspreading the surface of our planetary home?

Political agendas, national allegiances, racial / religious / gender differences pale in the face of rampant degradation of global ecosystems, reckless dissipation of our planetary home's finite resources, and dwindling biodiversity worldwide.

We have good scientific knowledge that our planetary home exists in space - time, is finite, has frangible ecological systems and possesses scarce resources, many of which are being dissipated by you and me, so that our children and coming generations will likely be deprived of them.

Unintended, pernicious challenges resulting from unrestrained increase of per capita over-consumption of Earth's finite resources appear to be threatening to ravage our planetary home.

From my humble perspective, many leaders of the global economy are turning a blind eye to unchecked over-consumption, unbridled overproduction and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and dangerously degrading the environs of our planetary home.

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.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

These collections reveal Levertov's passion for justice, faith, and hope for this planetary home.

This is just good old common sense and respect for our planetary home and the other humans and wildlife we share the globe with.

Can someone explain how so many well - intentioned people are failing so miserably to share a common understanding of what is happening in our planetary home in these early years of Century XXI?

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.