Sentences with phrase «reining in human»

It's time to ditch the one - strand policy of habitat protection, and move towards reining in human numbers and consumption as well.

Not only does the report clearly not do what it claims to do, and not only is this another instance of Big Insurance joining forces with Big Environment to whip up alarm (not to mention premiums) about environmental risks (Allianz join Munich Re, RMS and Catlin), but, by ranking countries in terms of energy — rather than CO2 — production, it also supports our suggestion that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.

It suggests that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.

To increase human autonomy is therefore to increase the human capacity for evil; to rein in evil might require reining in human autonomy.

Yesterday's decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC, the U.S. Supreme Court's third major decision involving the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), continues a trend of reining in human rights activists» efforts to police private businesses» overseas conduct through ATS litigation.

We can surely rein in human overdevelopment by way of a law or two.

However, this is not the definition of «environmentalism» we'd use here at Climate Resistance, which integrally includes the desire to rein in human ambitions.

Not exact matches

It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

It operates in the individual «s willful yielding to the temptation to give rein to the libido of sensuality, of power, and of knowledge, and it operates even more powerfully in human institutions that in individuals.

If secularity itself now requires reining in, this movement ought not to undermine human freedom.

The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out how he had prevented the Government from cutting inheritance tax, scrapping the Human Rights Act and reining in green energy.

In the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspecteIn the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspectein - just as they had suspected.

An editorial posted online on 28 April says the journal's objective in publishing the study was «the sounding of an alarm to draw immediate attention to the urgent need to rein in applications of gene - editing technologies, especially in the human germ cells or embryos.»

A human embryonic stem cell is reined in — prevented from giving up its unique characteristics of self - renewal and pluripotency — by the presence of a protein modification that stifles any genes that would prematurely instruct the cell to develop into heart or other specialized tissue.

There was a classic example in this post: you're causing me to think about the way we reflect on those we have lost at Christmas, and then there's the amazing line: «It's also a time when I am given free rein to style myself like a human Christmas tree.»

Resembling a children's movie for grown - ups while reining in Del Toro's worst tendencies, its hybrid form holds clear appeal for another year when the highest - grossing films replace humans with costumed superheroes and animated creatures, our postmodern costume dramas.

Everybody in the film overacts a little bit, but most are professional enough to rein it in at a remotely tolerable / human level and consign any blame for the film's poor quality to the screenplay.

This is a heavy question, but her overriding view is that while we human beings have created serious and threatening environmental chaos that urgently needs to be reined in, Ackerman remains enormously hopeful, reminding us that we are thinkers, builders, rearrangers, and inventors.

This is a heavy question, but Ackerman's overriding view is that while we human beings have created serious and threatening environmental chaos that urgently needs to be reined in, she remains enormously hopeful, reminding us that we are thinkers, builders, rearrangers, and inventors.

I believe that there are two competing forces at work: (1) the Get Rich Quick impulse that exists in the heart of every human (and, thus, every investor); and (2) the economic realities that must exact financial pain on those who fail to rein in their Get RIch Quick impulses if the market is to continue to function.

Whether or not humans are providing the bulk of warming, which I personally believe is true, it is time for us to begin trying to learn how to rein in the climate and utilize it for our own self preservation.

The consequences of inaction, of failing to rein - in the damage being done to this protective shield by human activity, would have been devastating to all life on the planet.

In this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.&raquIn this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.&raquin The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.»

As another well - known Brit might say, it is time rein in a global SPECTRE that has wreaked too much human and environmental havoc.

Kristin Savell, «Human Rights in the Age of Technology: Can Law Rein in the Medical Juggernaut?»

Earlier this month, after a public outcry over disturbing and potentially exploitative YouTube content involving children, CEO Susan Wojcicki said the company would increase its number of human moderators to more than 10,000 in 2018, in an attempt to rein in unsavory content on the web's biggest video platform.