Sentences with phrase «scale of human activities»

Though the scale of human activity in these areas is not enormous, the impact of scandalously shortsighted growth is realized most destructively in these remote places.

Yes conservation is important, not least in ensuring that species can migrate to deal with climate changes and other environmental disruptions, but the scale of human activity is such that we are collectively making the future ecological conditions of the planet.

LONDON, 13 December, 2016 — Scientists have calculated the mass of that unnatural achievement called the «technosphere», demonstrating the scale of human activity that drives climate change.

Such activities go on all the time, increasingly so as the scale of human activity bumps into the ecological carrying capacity of the planet.

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More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

A flashing red light tells us that the scale and nature of human activity has grown out of proportion relative to the capacity of the Earth to sustain it.

Low levels of physical activity and inefficient sleep patterns intensify the effects of genetic risk factors for obesity, according to results of a large - scale study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

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).

«If human activities are starting to impact this system, it is a worrying sign that the scale of human impacts on the climate system may be reaching a critical point.»

Emphasis lies in comparing regional - scale reconstructions of environmental and climatic processes using natural archives, documentary and instrumental data, with evidence of past human activity obtained from historical, paleoecological and archaeological records.

Yet human activities such as large - scale farming and deforestation are compromising the health of soil on a global scale.

Ms. Abrams melds contradictions of materials, macro and micro scales, the natural and the human made, all to carry her ever - present concern for the effects of human activity on nature.

The large - scale images are not easy to place, often showing vast sections of landscape with little direct human activity — though, often evidence of human construction.

All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale — from great distance to close - up, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and interrelationships between human activity and the natural world.

«Considering these... major and still growing impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»

Leaders of the human community can not fail in their declared mission to acknowledge, address and overcome certain global challenges already visible on the far horizon that evidently result from the huge scale and growth of unregulated propagation, unrestricted consumption and unbridled production activities of the human species on Earth.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

It is simply this: Earth's body is finite, its resources are limited, and its ecosystem services capable of irreversible degradation by the huge scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the ones we see rampantly overspreading the surface of our planetary home in our time.

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

But the report finds only «medium confidence» (a 50/50 chance) * in a link between human activities and intensification of extreme rainfall on a global scale.

Earth has restricted resources and, therefore, by its very nature can not be a foundation for the endless growth of human activities, especially given the colossal scale and unbridled growth of production, propagation and per human consumption.

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

People have no sense of the scale and how SMALL the contribution of human activity is on the grand scale of things.

Jerry specializes in understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems from local to global scales, using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling.

There is no empirical evidence which confirms that long term, large scale climatic warming is the result of human activity.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change.

In general, human activities are an a tremendously smaller scale compared to the amount of energy fluxing in and out of the global climate system.

Paul Norton: the concept of ecological or biophysical limits to the scale of human economic activity, who are uncritical optimists about technology

What do you expect will happen if human propagation, production and consumption activities continue to grow, given their current scale and expected annual rate of increase?

«The proposed experiments are quite small scale, and the environmental consequences are likely to be negligible compared with a lot of human activity we already take for granted,» says co-author Doug MacMartin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

The Europeans and Americans nevertheless agreed that through most of the last 100,000 years the global climate had oscillated «on a scale that human cultural and industrial activities have not yet faced.»

Emissions of several important greenhouse gases that result from human activity have increased substantially since large - scale industrialization began in the mid-1800s.

Human activities may have the potential to push components of the Earth system past critical states into qualitatively different modes of operation, implying large - scale impacts on human and ecological sysHuman activities may have the potential to push components of the Earth system past critical states into qualitatively different modes of operation, implying large - scale impacts on human and ecological syshuman and ecological systems.

Galloway et al. (2004) document that human activities increasingly dominate the nitrogen budget at the global scale and that fixed forms of nitrogen are accumulating in most environmental reservoirs.

This increase is a direct result of burning fossil fuels, broad - scale deforestation and other human activity.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreaking video to fully grasp the scale to which some human activities are jeopardizing habitats of crucial species around the world.

traditional urbanism has three essential qualities: 1) a diverse population and range of activities; 2) a rich array of public spaces and institutions and 3) human scale in its buildings, streets and neighbourhoods.

Nor the very significant design contributions he's made to the evolution of these human scale, natural environment - based activities.

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.

He notes «I use the term carefully — reserving it for those who deny the most basic findings of the scientific community, which includes the fact that human activity is substantially or entirely responsible for the large - scale warming we have seen over the past century».

Considering... [the] major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

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