Sentences with phrase «societal changes taking»

As well, there are a number of significant societal changes taking place — for example millennials who choose not to take on 30 - year mortgages and are searching for alternatives.

Yes, there are cameos about natural childbirth and cheesemaking, but given the huge societal changes taking place at the time — the women's liberation movement, the Black Panthers, Stonewall — I expected more.

Not exact matches

«It's more subtle things and societal factors that really take time to change.»

And so with a group it like singlizes everything about this breastfeeding movement and you know people being happy and proud and empowered and support each other, taking a stand and sort of taking it to the streets you know I mean this is where I get a little very passionate about breastfeeding in public because of the overall societal changes and impact it makes.

Hopefully, after reading how far some people will go, just to grab the attention of a nursing mom, some societal changes may take place.

«For current climate change adaptation research, it is worth looking into the historical record to take into account the cultural, societal, and political factors that hampered adaptation in the past in order to be prepared for the future.

«It is important to take the global projections and zoom them in to regional and local levels to better understand the societal impacts of climate change,» Pal says.

Many took Coleman's findings as implying that schools alone would never close the achievement gap, without dramatic societal changes, requiring transforming neighborhoods and family structure.

Mike Bode's artistic practice often takes its starting point in investigations of the built environment seen in relation to societal and historical changes and political and technical shifts.

Kevans takes the allegory «Ship of Fools» as the title for her latest series of paintings which addresses her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement.

She also changed her last name to Chicago after the town of her birth, shunning the patriarchal and societal construct of taking the father's last name, and pioneered Feminist art and art education through a unique program for women at California State University, Fresno, a pedagogical approach that she has continued to develop over the years.

The potential for efficiency remains enormous, and given the likely improvements in technology and changes in societal norms over the next century which it will take us to do the right thing, we are likely to be able to cut fossil fuel use further than most people imagine possible, even if renewables don't become commercially competitive (which wind is already, and solar is in certain situations).

Here are three reactions to my post about Machiavelli's view of the impediments to making big changes in societies — as in the asymmetrical nature of the battle to take the carbon out of energy systems in the face of both societal inertia and intensive efforts by entrenched interests to maintain the status quo.

For example, as law - makers consider how to vote — and consider how seriously to take the problem of climate change — they should do so with an awareness that if they don't face and address climate change via their decisions and votes, then at least some people will likely begin to embrace other approaches to societal change, including NVCD, and justifiably so.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

Probably, the major issue that forces us as individuals to take action is health and in so far, no socio - environmental issue like climate change has given rise to such international political and institutional movement, and societal initiatives, including governmental and non-governmental ones, devising strategies in sectors like Energy and so on — for instance, biodiversity maintenance does not have that power!

«The changes seem to turn immigrants into economic commodities and don't appear to take into consideration the family and societal values immigrants who may be excluded under the changes could bring to Canada,» says Mario Bellissimo.

The court took the effort to highlight some of the measures the law society has taken over the years to reflect changing societal values,