Sentences with phrase «sustain human civilization»

Whether we are able to sustain human civilization depends on not only our numbers, but also the rate at which we consume the earth's resources and create waste.

She creates, shapes, and sustains human civilization.

Although conflicts over water resources date back thousands of years, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the essential role water plays in sustaining human civilization, the nations have found a way to cooperate in sharing and managing water resources.

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Food is not fixed in time, yet we have been poor managers of our resources over the years as human civilization has progressed and today stand at a situation where sustaining our biggest source of energy has transformed into our biggest problem coupled with environmental degradation.

«Establishing a self - sustaining second human civilization on Mars» is, in his view, «the most important goal.

Together, these objects not only attest to Golub's incisive perspective on the catastrophes that afflict human civilization but also demonstrate his sustained critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity.

One would think that the climate system, whose stability enabled and fostered the evolution of the human race and civilization over the course of a few million years without active intervention, would be worth a tad more than a mere one generation's worth of sustained economic growth with low inflation.

Response to fishoutofwater: was not recommending a return to slash & burn ag and dust bowl days, simply pointing out that human civilization has already been the biggest, most aggravating geo - engineering experiment the biosphere has ever endured, and it's time to apply some first aid and emergency care to its most important life - sustaining victims.

If we allow sustained global average temperature increases of more than 1 degree Celsius, we will suffer irreversible climate destabilization and a planet largely inhospitable to human civilization.

BuryCoal.com has been established to be the antithesis to «Drill, Baby, Drill» and make a forceful and well - reasoned case for leaving all that carbon safely underground, while moving to a zero - carbon, renewable global energy system that can sustain human prosperity and civilization indefinitely.