For, to me, it leads us to the powerfully positive message that, by following the allostatic load guidelines that suggest we take the approach of both reducing cumulative environmental load and optimizing allostatic response mechanisms that revolve around hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine, and insulin plus the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, detoxification, and immune systems, we can make major inroads in
reducing human suffering.
Our current ability to predict the action of a given drug is so poor that even a small step forward would be a large contribution to
reducing human suffering from disease.
«Trees have direct and indirect benefits for cooling buildings and
reducing human suffering during heat waves,» Endreny said.
It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to
reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.
This brief suggests that strengthening the resilience of smallholders» livelihoods would help
reduce human suffering and the financial costs associated with disasters.
Typically environmentalists are opposed to testing a new technology which could
reduce human suffering.
This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to
reduce human suffering due to climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative international efforts to address both climate adaptation and mitigation.
To stand up for whatever cause you believe in that will
reduce human suffering or end violence?
The aforementioned benefit of fewer casualties and
reduced human suffering represents a double - edged sword: Some already argue that the American public is too sheltered from the costs and burdens of our current wars; imagine how little attention the public would direct towards a war in which the only casualties were expensive erector sets that shoot.
Our mission is to provide quality education and consultancy to all our clients in order to
reduce human suffering and financial costs associated with workplace incidents.
Not exact matches
How about to improve life on this planet and
reduce as much
human suffering as possible?
Some of those who are concerned for animal
suffering believe that the goal should be legislation to
reduce this
suffering, while still affirming the right of
human beings to raise animals for slaughter.
No
human kindness
reduces his
suffering; no
human intervention diverts the man's desire to know why he
suffers.
Morality is
reduced to «the palliation of whatever
humans themselves regard as the cause of their
suffering or deprivation.»
For 70 years we've been campaigning to make veganism an easily adopted and widely recognised appoach to
reducing animal and
human suffering and environmental damage - and you've been part of it.
As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's
human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might
suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that
human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to
reduce it.
For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging
human responsibility and endeavour as the way to
reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary
suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.
As the press release states, «[t] he consequences in terms of improved
human health and
reduced suffering are immeasurable.»
«Tools to support the development of therapeutics to alleviate the
suffering of these patients is not only the
human thing to do, it is the best means of
reducing this cost.»
While the animals» brains experience dramatically
reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like
human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps
suffering no ill effects.
Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in
humans caused by atherosclerosis, in which artery walls thicken and
suffer reduced plasticity due to an accumulation of white blood cells.
They are advocates against cruelty and neglect, encourage a strong animal -
human bond, find quality loving families for otherwise homeless animals, and promote and facilitate spay / neuter procedures to
reduce the over population and
suffering of unwanted or homeless animals.
It is so helpful that even sexologists suggest
humans suffering from sexual hyperactivity to practice challenging sports to
reduce their desire.
Eureka, CA — Friends for Life Friends For Life Animal Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the
suffering and killing of homeless companion animals in Humboldt County and beyond through programs designed to (1) place homeless companion animals in permanent, loving, adoptive homes, (2)
reduce the number of dogs and cats being born, and (3) enrich the
human - animal bond.
riends For Life Animal Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the
suffering and killing of homeless companion animals in Humboldt County and beyond through programs designed to (1) place homeless companion animals in permanent, loving, adoptive homes, (2)
reduce the number of dogs and cats being born, and (3) enrich the
human - animal bond.
Cats, like us
humans, can
suffer from intestinal inflammation due to grains or other allergens which
reduces nutrient absorption (Food sensitivity in cats with chronic idiopathic gastrointestinal problems.
The enduring bond
humans share with animals has the power to
reduce suffering, mitigate loneliness, improve mental well - being and bridge the gap between ourselves and others.
Human suffering, at least, will be
reduced.
Pain and
suffering has been hugely
reduced wherever modern medicine is available and it is no longer necessary to accept that
human life is «nasty, brutish and short».
Then, with a wealthy and
reducing global population that can afford to take care of the environment, with advances in technology we can only dream of, the world can become a better place with long term sustainability and an end to avoidable
human suffering.
If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological
suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently
reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
«The welfare state
reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti- work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property...
Humans forced to
suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies.
We represent states that are already
suffering the economic and
human consequences of climate change, and that are leaders in working to
reduce the emissions that cause it.
Scientists who advocate
human - CO2 caused global warming predicted that African regions, such as the Lake Victoria area, would
suffer from
reduced precipitation because of the warming.
Suffering the Science: Climate change, people and poverty goes into greater detail, but in short the report says that hunger, disaster and disease will be the «new normal»: At 5 °C Rise Billions Could Die Even at 2 °C temperature increases, some 660 million people could be forced into devastating conditions the report says; and if we continue to follow a business - as - usual trajectory and allow something on the order of 5 °C temperature rise,
human population levels could be
reduced to just one billion people by the end of the century.
Consequently,
human judgment is
reduced to a minimum and there is no guarantee non-economic losses like pain and
suffering and long - term disability will be reflected in the estimate generated.
ACT is a general model of the language and cognition processes involved in
reducing psychological
suffering and promoting
human well - being.
However, compassion meditation did not
reduce activity for images of
human suffering, suggesting that the compassion meditation increased a person's responsiveness to
suffering.