Sentences with phrase «system of planets»

The life support systems of our planet are being systematically ripped apart.

Imagine an economy that can meet people's needs without undermining the life - support systems of the planet.

It succeeds financially by fanning people's fears, by exaggerating, by blaming forest fires on global warming when they've really been started by countercultural individuals who believe «modern lifestyles... are unhealthy and out of harmony with the natural systems of planet Earth.»

Like a supercomputer whose elaborate code has developed a few bugs, the core operating systems of the planet are frayed: Ocean populations are collapsing, forests are disappearing, soils have become thin.

GREEDY GIANT Jupiter, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, might have once robbed the inner solar system of planet - building material

For example, we may come to care about the release of others from degrading poverty, the ending of war, or the preservation of the life - support systems of the planet in ways that are relatively separate from any gains to us personally.

Now Kepler has found a whole system of planets orbiting a double star.

Rainforests are the central nervous system of our planet — a hotbed of evolution, life, and diversity.

Each discovery has shown just how creative nature can be and has brought Boss a little closer to understanding the intricate process by which a swirling mass of gas and dust turns into a vibrant system of planets.

Whatever their origin, the planemos are surrounded by disks of rocky debris, suggesting that they each may be at the center of a whole miniature system of planets circling planets.

In our own solar system, for example, there are three miniature «solar systems»: the satellite systems of the planets Jupiter (with 13 moons), Saturn (with 10) and Uranus (with five).

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory was used to record images from the alien system of planets.

So that poses a question: Just because Battlestar Galactica imagines a quadruple star system (well, two binary systems in a mutual orbit), is it possible to have such a stable system of planets evolve in a multi-star system?

Developed by 12 Hit Combo, Space Overlords allows players to name their own galaxy, and create their own system of planets.

It begins with a vague story about a war that broke out after humans colonised a far away system of planets.

How about: the weather systems of Planet Earth are far too complex for anyone to properly understand, let alone model in a computer.

«When we look at the complex environmental systems of our planet, from climate to the polar ice sheets, there will always be lingering uncertainties, and some surprises probably await us.

The atmosphere is really part of the active cooling system of the planet, and increasing CO2 increases the rate of cooling because the sun - heated atmosphere is hotter than the bulk of space and the higher emissivity of the CO2 helps cool the atmosphere.

The term Earthism may suggest that a higher priority is placed on the natural systems of the planet than on its human inhabitants.

Over 20 years as co-founder and publisher of Business Ethics magazine, I'd seen how corporations and financial markets had come to be the dominant institutions of society, how their profit - maximizing operating system had become the operating system of the planet.

When you emerge the other side you've unlocked a solar system of planets to explore, challenges to complete, dungeons to explore and loot galore.

Climate engineering has completely derailed and disrupted the entire life support system of planet Earth and contaminated the biosphere from the clouds to the ground in the process.

By destroying life - support systems of this planet we are impoverishing the life of God.

In the case of cosmic homelessness this reaction has led to a domineering and destructive attitude toward the life - systems of our planet.

We do not know which are all the critical species involved in the life - support systems of the planet, nor those that might be useful in the future for creating new crops and new medicines.

From the ashes grew new stars, and around one of them, a system of planets and asteroids and moons.

More than a century afterward, in 1755, Kant reasoned that the Milky Way was actually a large lens - shaped disk, a system of stars (including the sun) analogous to the sun's system of planets.

A nearby Sun - like star is surrounded by a large amount of dust and may have a system of planets as well, say two astronomers in the US.

Around it's a whirling cloud of residual dust and gas — the very material that can build, over billions of years, a system of planets and moons.

I study various properties of exoplanets and exoplanetary systems (systems of planets that orbit distant stars).

What we also know is that the living systems of the planet, and the human species within them, are resilient — if not pushed too far.

While we debate the fate of the planet, we never stop to think that maybe the systems of the planet will do our corrective work for us, and that the real eureka will come as we realize that our mastery of the planet was an illusion.

«These planktonic organisms are the life support system of the planet.»

Meanwhile, climate instability, species extinction, resource scarcity, and toxic pollution are threatening the basic life - support systems of the planet.

In 2009 Joachim Hans Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Climate Impacts Institute and Climate Advisor to the German Government, stated: «We're simply talking about the very life support system of this planet», constituting one of the most critical warnings science has ever issued to our species.

The film explores how unlimited growth and greed are destroying the life support system of the planet, the social fabric of society, and the lives of billions of people.Will we have the wisdom to survive?

Business as usual is no longer an option if we are to avoid irreversible damage to the life - support systems of our planet.»

You see, even if we could stop all tides, globally (which, in case you didn't know, we can't, with out removing moon and sun from solar system) that would actually be meddling with a vital feature of the natural systems of the planet.

Not only are the geoengineers ripping apart the climate / life support systems of the planet, they are irreparably contaminating the entire biosphere.