Sentences with phrase «term human extinction»
If American courts won't touch the people who destroyed a third of all US wealth, what makes anybody think they'll go after the purveyors of near term human extinction?
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The website offers low - cost workshops and reads, «You've come to grips with near - term human extinction.
«Near - term human extinction» even has an acronym, NTHE, and McPherson is certainly not the first scientist or science writer to say we've damaged our ecosystem too much to fix it.
Is NTHE (near - term human extinction) possible?
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The researchers built a complex series of mathematical models to recreate the dynamic interaction between the main potential drivers of extinction (dingoes, climate and humans), the long - term response of herbivore prey, and the viability of the thylacine and devil populations.
Investigating claims of near - term extinction for humans.
Following on from the 2014 Extinction Marathon which presented environmental and human crises facing the world today (co-curated with Gustav Metzger) and the 2015 Transformation Marathon, which proposed ways of identifying and effecting change in the face of increasing complexity, the 2016 Miracle Marathon focused in on ritual, repetition and magical thinking to consider ways in which the imaginary can not only predict, but also play a part in affecting long - term futures.
But to read and «feel», day after day after day so much of what is going wrong in terms of species extinction and non human habitat destruction, the result of our doing, well?
McPherson also believes we are past the point where human actions can prevent near - term extinction, due to all the positive feedback mechanisms being in play.
Even without putting climate change into the mix, recent extinction has proceeded at least 3 - 80 times above long - term background rates (Barnosky et al., 2011) and possibly much more (Pimm and Brooks, 1997; Pimm et al., 1995; WRI, 2005), 17 primarily from human - caused habitat destruction and overexploitation of species.