Sentences with phrase «scale impacts on the planets»

All factors combined are expected to have large scale impacts on the planets environment, and its inhabitants.

Not exact matches

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

That this latter argument has persisted to this day in some quarters highlights our species» propensity to underestimate the scale of our impact on the planet.

Then comes a passage that speaks potently of how access to fossil fuels has been an incredible boon, and the source of the prosperity that has allowed us to build the capacity to observe and comprehend planet - scale changes, but also helped accelerate and intensify our impacts on the planet's biological and climate systems:

Cool Planet's proposed facility will provide enormous help in learning how to make biochar at industrial scales in a way that could help make a material impact on removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Food systems as they exist already impact the planet on massive scales.

Not only does the Arctic serve as regulator of many of the Earth's large - scale systems and processes, but it is also an area where choices made have substantial impact on life and choices everywhere on planet Earth.

Self generation with small scale hydro, wind, solar, ground source, biomass makes infinitely more sense on both the impact on the planet from massive unnecessary infrastructure, and on more sustainable living.

They do not support the idea that any big new releases of methane are occurring in the Arctic yet, at least not on a sufficient scale to have an overall impact on the planet's methane burden.

«We are realising that the Anthropocene is a phenomenon on a massive scale — it is the transformation of our planet by human impact, in ways that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history.

Because the region is so vast, even small ecological effects can scale - up to a large impact on the planet's carbon cycle,» explained Professor Phillips.»