Sentences with phrase «rising human vulnerability»
While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.
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We still need his genius to see that human behavior is complex, that demonic possibilities are built into church and social structures, that human pride and spiritual arrogance rise to new heights precisely at the point where they are closest to the Kingdom of God, and that advance brings vulnerability to new temptations.
To build an in vitro model of the human glomerulus to probe deeper into its function and vulnerabilities to disease and drug toxicities, researchers have been attempting to engineer human stem cells — that in theory can give rise to any mature cell type — so that they form into functional podocytes.
Vulnerabilities would be magnified by the speed of human - made climate change and the potentially large sea level rise [115].
Updated, Feb. 8, 10:00 p.m. Given Florida's special vulnerability to rising seas and other consequences of human - driven global warming (which I first wrote about in 1988), it's not surprising that one of the first efforts to break the partisan impasse in the House around this issue has come from two lawmakers from the south end of that state — Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo and Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat.
Despite the vulnerability of many of his own properties to sea level rise, on the campaign trail President - elect Donald Trump stuck with Republican orthodoxy in questioning human - driven climate change, and criticizing the steps the Obama administration has taken to combat it.
Given the increasing vulnerability of glaciers around the world to human - forced warming, there's a rising risk that seas could rise by 10 feet before the end of this Century.
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