Sentences with phrase «sustaining human progress»

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

Here's a proposed strategy for sustaining human progress on a finite planet, in nine Twitter posts.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

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The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

Again, if it be true that Evolution is rebounding on itself through the fact of human totalization, it must, becoming conscious, fasten passionately upon itself: which is to say that Man, to progress further, will need to be sustained by a powerful collective faith.

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.

Human development, they agreed, is the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, as well as contributing to global security.

Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good Is recent human progress won on at the cost of sustained well - being?

To sustain progress on a finite planet that is increasingly under human sway, but also full of surprises, what is needed is a strong dose of anthropophilia.

Clearly, the work of those aspiring to create a new norm for how humans define progress and relate to resources, both living and nonliving, is akin to the methodical, sustained work required in cathedral building.

Twenty two months ago, I interrupted my nonstop journalistic pursuit of paths toward sustainable human progress to focus on sustaining myself.

Hydrocarbons fueled the most amazing and sustained progress in human history.

Anthropophilia To sustain progress on a finite planet that is increasingly under human sway, but also full of surprises, what is needed is a strong dose of anthropophilia.