Sentences with phrase «political future of our world»

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To me, the core impulse behind this movement is the feeling among young people all over the world that the future doesn't compute, that their lives will be full of ecological, political and financial crises, and that they will never have a life like their parents did.

Underwood was included in Yahoo's «Best Person in the World» series in 2014 and was honored by clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. as one of 50 women around the globe who have changed the political, cultural, and spiritual shape of the future.

More than just a political analysis, Silver seemed to offer an appealing vision of the world — the promise that, with enough rigour and the right statistical models, we could sift through the data and see the future with clear, dispassionate eyes.

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

The world's political and business leaders should choose from «two fundamentally different outlooks» for the state of the world: One is Xi's «shared future» vision and the other is Trump's «America First» policy, said state news agency Xinhua in a commentary published yesterday (Jan. 24).

Sir Martin Sorrell: Davos is often described as a bellwether of the key geopolitical issues for the yr in advance, but anyone hunting to the forum's constellation of stars for a glimpse of the future is very likely to be disappointed Picture: Rex Features In January the world's political...

In a recent interview, Hamid said, «Part of the great political crisis we face in the world today is a failure to imagine plausible desirable futures.»

But soon after the death of Muhammad political questions relating to his rightful successor were raised, and with them arose certain theological questions concerning the nature of the true Imam (Muslim head of state), the meaning of faith, sin, infidelity, punishment in the Future World, and so on.

It led him to similar views of the future as promise constituting the horizon for political action in the world.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

However, there is little public appetite for a boycott of the World Cup in England, which has been reflected in comments by England manager Gareth Southgate (who has argued England should definitely participate) and also in media comment which has pointed to the danger England could be excluded from future FIFA competitions if a political boycott was imposed by the country's leaders.

As of this writing, the future of online social networks as a political tool seems to hinge around Facebook, though the real question is its ability to spark concrete action in the real world — social networks tend to create «soft» ties that don't necessarily convert into commitment.

Well in the nice safe world of political theory maybe you can, in terms of a constitutional settlement for a future parliament, maybe you can.

New York's political world is focused on a race in the Southern Tier that could help determine the future of the state Senate.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

Being an international conference dedicated to science and knowledge, World Science Forum shall give participants the possibility to exchange their views regarding - among others - the relationship between science and society, the importance and relevance of science for Society, its future, the related financing issues as well as its relationship to political and civil institutions.

NEW YORK, United States — After a clear yet shocking statement from the American electorate on Tuesday, many are struggling to come to terms with what a Donald Trump victory says about the current political sentiment in the country and what the future leadership of the controversial president - elect might mean for the United States and the world.

It's a cast whose progress through the story I was eager to witness, and the political maneuvering of the world of Horizon weaves myriad opportunities for intrigue both in this game and the future.

A quality education for Annette matters, immensely — not only for her dreams for the future, but for the future economic, political, and social stability of her community, her country, and for you and I — in our increasingly interconnected world.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Given the social, political, and economic complexities of the modern world, high - school students need a broad, deep, liberal arts education that will enable them to meet the challenges of the future as informed, thoughtful adults.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

This situation demands a new ethic based on respect for different, and involves decision, political will, mobilize and organization of all educational stakeholders to enhance dynamic and critical thinking, which generate new ideas that promote economic and social development, aimed at creating a better world in the future.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

After all, bad news only hurts optimists.But when the mysterious leader of the rebels cherry - picks him to acquire certain information for her, Len is forced to go on an investigative mission where he uncovers millennia - old secrets and unwittingly triggers a chain of disturbing events that will determine the future of humankind.Author Kevin Gaughen's dynamic debut novel, Interest, creates a seamless alternate reality behind real - world political tensions while keeping pac...

The millions of people whose financial futures are being destroyed by the reckless promotion of Buy - and - Hold for 30 years after the academic research showed that its chances of working in the real world are precisely zero are the people who built our economic and political system.

The memory of the past — from the legendary suggestions of the pre-Columbian lands to the Etruscan world passing through Oceanic and primitive art — is permeated with visions of a futuristic future, creating an imagined dimension which is, however, always connected with the social and political reality the artist was deeply involved in.

The political, spiritual, and material conflicts captured within these shrines expose Kuksi's disenchantment with the past, present, and future state of the world.

This exhibition will focus on the decade when our artists, very much alongside our photographers, film stars, musicians and fashion designers, captured the world's imagination, creating the idea of «Swinging London», the city that was the symbol of all that was new and exciting for a generation finally throwing off the trauma of the Second World War and facing the future with an optimism born from prosperity and political freedom, despite the shadow of nuclear proliferation and the continuation of the Coldworld's imagination, creating the idea of «Swinging London», the city that was the symbol of all that was new and exciting for a generation finally throwing off the trauma of the Second World War and facing the future with an optimism born from prosperity and political freedom, despite the shadow of nuclear proliferation and the continuation of the ColdWorld War and facing the future with an optimism born from prosperity and political freedom, despite the shadow of nuclear proliferation and the continuation of the Cold War.

«toute seule» plunges into the world of political and social change over the past five decades, yet leaves a sense of hopefulness that mistakes will be learned from this creative history and a brighter and better future lies ahead.

Inspired by the recent political and economic upheavals in America and abroad, this selection juxtaposes new photographs that take the long view of the world's current condition with prescient works from the 1980s and 1990s that remain startlingly relevant today... PRESS RELEASE Trevor Paglen exhibition at Vienna Secession reviewed in Frieze, May 2011 PDF New Exhibition Catalogue from Secession available Images of the Black World with essay by Brian Holmes Trevor Paglen featured in Art Review Future Greats, March 2011 PDF Shannon Ebner upcoming solo project at the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAX Art Los Angeles, CA Julyworld's current condition with prescient works from the 1980s and 1990s that remain startlingly relevant today... PRESS RELEASE Trevor Paglen exhibition at Vienna Secession reviewed in Frieze, May 2011 PDF New Exhibition Catalogue from Secession available Images of the Black World with essay by Brian Holmes Trevor Paglen featured in Art Review Future Greats, March 2011 PDF Shannon Ebner upcoming solo project at the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAX Art Los Angeles, CA JulyWorld with essay by Brian Holmes Trevor Paglen featured in Art Review Future Greats, March 2011 PDF Shannon Ebner upcoming solo project at the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAX Art Los Angeles, CA July 2011

What would happen if we used gamesmanship to decide our political future, if comic Internet memes took over the real world and if the values and vibes of sporting patriotism were infectious, but to a sinister degree?

[27] Nightcleaners was presented this past April at the BFI Southbank Theatre as part of a series on seventies cutting edge political films [28] and was included in the Okwui Enwezor - curated All the World's Futures show at this year's Venice Biennale.

Within this framework, the World Climate simulation aimed to put participants in the spotlight and give them the responsibility to take political decisions that affect mankind's and nature's future with the goal of achieving the good common life.

While in the public health realm, Australia's political decisiveness has led the world on regulating the tobacco industry and minimising health risks, in regards to climate change, political influence has created doubt that likely enhances the risks of future extremes.

Doctors must respond to protect human health against an unprecedented challenge The current federal political climate in the United States bodes ill for the future of the world's climate, and...

We hope the story that these numbers tell not only builds momentum for a people - powered safe climate future, but inspires political leaders to face the crux of the tar sands head on: tar sands expansion has no place in a climate safe world.

And China, while busily building new coalfired power stations at the rate of one a week (it has already overtaken the US as the world number one CO2 emitter), has become the new imperial power in sub-Saharan Africa, using its substantial political and economic muscle to secure control of the raw materials needed for its future growth, in particular African oil and gas reserves.

The exhibition provides the kind of evidence students need to join the debate about their future — it is an invitation to students and their tutors to articulate the kind of world they want to live in and through Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS) by bringing them together to show political and business leaders support to take the difficult long - term decisions that underpin security for all.

(11/15/07) «Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal - Fired Power Plants» (5/9/07) «Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices» (3/21/07) «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History» (1/4/07) «Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining» (12/14/06) «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability» (11/3/06) «The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization» (11/15/06) «U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration» (10/4/06) «Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain» (7/13/06) «Let's Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes» (5/12/06) «Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy» (3/22/06) «Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World» (3/9/05) «China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer» (2/16/05)» Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy» (10/27/04) «A Short Path to Oil Independence» (10/13/04) «World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely» (05/05/04) «World Food Prices Rising: Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries» (04/28/04) «Saudis Have U.S. Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil» (4/14/04) «Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy» (4/8/04) «China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices» (3/10/04) «U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes» (2/18/04) «Troubling New Flows of Environmental Refugees» (1/28/04) «Wakeup Call on the Food Front» (12/16/03) «Coal: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond» (12/3/03) «World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall» (9/17/03) «Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest» (8/27/03) «China Losing War with Advancing Deserts» (8/4/03) «Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source» (6/25/03) «World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water» (3/13/03) «Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice» (12/11/02) «Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices» (8/21/02) «Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries» (8/6/02) «World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise» (7/17/02) «New York: Garbage Capital of the World» (4/17/02) «Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected» (3/12/02) «World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure» (2/5/02) «World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001» (1/8/02) «This Year May be Second Warmest on Record» (12/18/01) «World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall» (11/21/01) «Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country» (11/15/01) «Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security» (10/4/01) «Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan» (5/31/01) «Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future» (5/23/01) «Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land» (2/14/01) «Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise - Deprived Societies» (12/19/00) «HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population» (10/31/00) «Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source» (10/3/00) «OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again» (9/8/00) «Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice» (8/29/00) «The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition» (7/25/00) «HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa» (7/18/00) «Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty» (6/21/00) «U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy» (6/7/00) «World Kicking the Cigarette Habit» (5/10/00) «Falling Water Tables in China» (5/2/00) Top of page

Can we reverse the trends that are tightening food supplies, or is the world moving toward a future of rising food prices and political unrest?

Let your political representatives know that a world spending nearly $ 1 trillion a year for military purposes is simply out of sync with reality in a situation where the future of civilization is in question.

Ilona Kickbusch discusses the challenges that Dr Tedros will face and how he will need to apply his political focus and determination The future of the World Health Organization (WHO) will depend on the strategic interplay of two factors.

Dare I suggest that they (the publishers) use this ever developing set of political and social circumstances to look at the big picture and cogitate on what the future of international commercial law might become as these two giants start to dominate the world's economy

All of these issues will invariably increase in importance in the future, as they are at the core of many political stability issues around the world.

Last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, the potential of Blockchain was highlighted with political and business leaders discussing its future and potential to help both developed and developing economies.

At the same time, given culture - specific factors including the authoritative communist political structure and restricted educational opportunities (Fong 2006), it is likely that vulnerability factors such as a lack of perceived control regarding the self, world, and future underscores vulnerability to depression.