Sentences with phrase «spurt crests»

Those gathered in Rio are assessing failure, but also pondering new ways to sustain Earth's operating systems — both living and geophysical — as humanity's growth spurt crests.

As I've noted before, he's the author of «Beyond Smoke and Mirrors,» a cogent road map for facing the daunting long - term challenge of cutting emissions of greenhouse gases even as humanity's growth spurt crests in the next few decades.

The idea here is to take the discussion beyond pro-nuke and anti-nuke debates over the appropriate «dread - to - risk ratio» for radiation and reactors and toward a more fundamental exploration of what policies and systems make the most sense as humanity's growth spurt crests.

It sure would be nice if the budgets for satellite programs aimed at tracking conditions on the home planet were secure, given the importance of such data as the human growth spurt crests.

He also has written «Beyond Smoke and Mirrors,» a cogent road map for facing the daunting long - term challenge of cutting emissions of greenhouse gases even as humanity's growth spurt crests in the next few decades.

This means, as has been discussed here before, that anyone who cares about jogging societies to act in the face of looming threats — whether in the media, sciences, education, arts or elsewhere — would do well to stop pointing fingers and get busy experimenting with new ways to tell the stories of our time as humanity's growth spurt crests.

This relates to the recent piece I did examining whether there are critical gaps in humans» cognitive toolkit, or is it O.K. for us to keep getting some kinds of risks wrong even as the human growth spurt crests in coming decades.

But it's building from a paltry base of both public and private investment in the energy arenas where breakthroughs could really expand the menu of energy options required to sustain a prospering, healthy planet as the human growth spurt crests.

Much of the debate about limiting climate risks and fostering a smooth path for humanity as its growth spurt crests revolves around metrics like gigatons of carbon dioxide and billions of dollars.

But even as a revised approach to offshore drilling evolves, it can only do so if paired with an aggressive commitment to step forward, for so many reasons — environmental, social, ethical, financial — in the energy quest required to chart a smooth path for humanity as its growth spurt crests in the next two generations.

I'll try to maintain the discipline to be «caustically honest» (to steal a phrase used by a climate scientist in a story of mine on tipping points last year) in weighing the issues and opportunities confronting humanity as its astonishing 200 - years - and - counting growth spurt crests.

Not exact matches

In Bornean orangutans, males get their crest in mid-adulthood during a secondary growth spurt.

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

Now comes «The Wonder List,» an eight - part CNN series launching Sunday night at 10 p.m. Eastern, in which Bill Weir, a seasoned foreign correspondent, and Philip Bloom, a talented filmmaker, roam five continents to examine cultures and ecosystems riding out humanity's growth spurt like it's a cresting wave.