Sentences with phrase «scale human land»

We tend to think of the overuse of natural resources, climatic instability, and large - scale human land use as quintessentially modern day problems.

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Other new questions about environmental issues include large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of food companies and related human rights problems.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Wildfires are usually sparked by humans clearing land, either for small - scale farming or major deforestation, Aragão says.

While we await the definitive documentary about the glut of garbage, Waste Land reduces this global catastrophe to touchingly human scale.

Eventually, «Jeff, Who Lives at Home» lands in a place of grandeur, human scale, but grand nonetheless.

In the late 18th century, British artists developed the large - scale panorama, all - encompassing bird's - eye views of the rivers and their lands that made humans seem the center of the universe.

This research aims to challenge this imperial representation of the landscape and captured the day - to - day interaction with the land on a human scale

As the temporal scale is extended, the development of dynamic vegetation models, which respond to climate and human land use as well as other changes, is a central issue.

And it was recognized those actions were a crap shoot (Where good science and policy goes bad: de-salinization plants in Oz rather than managing episodic flooding, drilling 20,000 ′ below a seafloor 5,000 ′ under a precious biosphere to seek oil that is abundantl available on dry land, for examples), but can anyone name a project of doubt on the scale of this one where unspeakable trillions are to be spent, redistributed, productivity disincentized, where people's lives across the world will be thrown into uncertainty, where this trans - generational mindset will, by design, crush the willful and spirited energy and creativity of human kind until it is finally overthrown democratically or otherwise?

In another analysis, Pei Zhai, Dev Millstein and other Berkeley Lab researchers looked at the impacts to human health, land use, weather, climate and greenhouse gas emissions associated with large - scale photovoltaic (PV) installations in 10 states.

However, meeting long ‐ term climate goals will require large ‐ scale transformations in human societies, from the way that we produce and consume energy to how we use the land surface, that are inconsistent with both longterm and short ‐ term trends.

As a result, the very different land - use histories produced by different models of Holocene land - use change (Figs. 1 and 2) have major implications in understanding the emergence of humans as a global - scale force transforming climate — a key indicator of Earth system transformation and the emergence of the Anthropocene (9 ⇓ — 11).

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

There are many other human - induced stresses on life, including land conversion with habitat destruction, species overharvesting, homogenization of biota, and ubiquitous toxins, which must be dealt with, yet global warming caused by fossil fuel burning may be a unique threat because of the millennial time scale of anthropogenic carbon within surface carbon reservoirs.

Because human activities, such as the emission of greenhouse gases or land - use change, do result in external forcing, it is believed that the large - scale aspects of human - induced climate change are also partly predictable.