Sentences with phrase «point for human civilization»

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to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

The worrying point is that including a rough estimate of permafrost - methane based forcing, what we'll get until 2100 is pretty close already to being the largest fluctuation in climate patterns ever since the start of human civilization, i.e. it will probably be outside everything we take for granted and the basic «natural laws» (which they are not, obviously) that every civilization on earth was based on.

Brad Johnson, who writes the Wonk Room blog for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenged me to clarify my stance on things, pointing to a post by his colleague Joe Romm concluding that «human civilization is on the precipice» and asking if I agreed.

His book Assault on Reason — published in April 2007 — stated that: «Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several «tipping points» that could — within as little as ten years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage of the planet's habitability for human civilization.»

Whatever the cause, the solutions all have to do with designing the human presence in the world to include fewer malls but more parks, more poetry and fewer advertisements, more windmills and fewer smoke stacks, more bike trails and fewer freeways, more schools and fewer military bases, more childcare and fewer tax breaks for the Koch Brothers, more solar collectors and no nuclear plants... the point is that any decent civilization that intended to hang around for a while would put its children first, just like we say we do.

Given the effects we are already seeing from the warming that has already occurred due to the GHGs we have already emitted, at this point it is very difficult for me to imagine any plausible course of events which does NOT result in the collapse of human civilization under the onslaught of AGW within a few decades at most.