Sentences with phrase «small planet we inhabit»

How much longer can the relatively small planet we inhabit withstand the colossal ravage being dealt to it in our time by human hands?

If the relatively small planet we inhabit is finite, then the endless consumption, production and propagation activities of so dominant a species as Homo sapiens can not continue much longer, let alone indefinitely.

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In the same year as the first outbreak and death from MRSA, the late John F Kennedy in his American University speech in 1963 said «In the final analysis our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children's future, & we are all mortal.»

With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more.

These failed stars, or brown dwarfs, inhabit a peculiar gray area between large planets and small stars, and their split personalities are providing scientists with new ways to learn about both kinds of objects.

Ordinary people have spotted an extraordinary world: a giant planet larger than Neptune and smaller than Saturn that inhabits a star system with four suns.

«For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

Dinosaurs used to live the good life, superior to the small mammals who also inhabited the planet, until one day a gigantic meteor struck the planet, destroying the dinosaurs.

Predictable, woefully inadequate, jaded, pitiful, unconscionable leadership — whose failure to respond ably to the requirements of practical biophysical reality of the relatively small planet God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm — could have profound adverse implications for the future of our children, for biodiversity and the environment, for Earth as a fit place for human habitation and life as we know it.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

Cultural transmissions abound about the grandeur of the individual, while silence persists about the reality of human beings as one among many wondrous creatures to inhabit a small, finite, frangible planet.

If we keep doing as we do now and getting what we get now, is it possible that the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit will soon reach a point when it is no longer possible for Earth's resources and ecosystem services to sustain either life as we know it or the human species?

Now let us look at the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit.