Sentences with phrase «thinking about global issues»

Claims about local environmental impacts promote innumerate thinking about global issues and do not seem sufficient (as confirmed by the Royal Society) to win the day.

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«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

It seemed like The Eiffel Tower or Paris» finest restaurants werent enough to distract them from a brilliant idea trapped under the grey clouds, because next thing you know, these two «uber» kids were already brainstorming, thinking about ways to solve this global issue of finding cars at the right place, on the right time.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

In this issue, we ask, how should processes of neoliberal globalisation make us think about global justice beyond the state?

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

London, United Kingdom About Blog Green Alliance is a think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues.

«What the World Thinks about Climate Change in 7 Charts» is a good place to get some key facts about the global issues.

Ask them also to reflect on what issues the owner would need to think about if they were selling their jewellery online to a global audience.

The emphasis is on developing students» ability to think critically about a range of global issues where there is always more than one point of view.

In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.

Thinking about issues of global awareness, Kunik's first body of abstract paintings dealt with the environment; more specifically rain forest deforestation.

In a Q+A in the 5th anniversary issue of ODDA, a global fashion magazine published in the UK, President Rosanne Somerson 76 ID speaks about how she uses design thinking in leading RISD and why a RISD education is so relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Similar things were being said about Global and Extreme Regional Temperatures and CO2 / e PPM in the 1980s — and still there are people who seem to go out of their way to minimise today's known accelerations and can not logically think their way through the issues in a rational manner.

Which in fact makes me think of the issue raised by some skeptics about our ability to reliably detect global temperature changes of tenths of a degree in the past century.

4) Some say that whatever you think about the dangers of global warming, this kind of language inevitably becomes the issue, distracts from the real questions, and could in fact further polarize or paralyze discourse.

I don't think that there is anything distinctive about the issues we face with regard to fringe opinions concerning global warming.

Here are Dr. Brulle's thoughts about the media, the human mind and looming issues, like global warming, that hide in plain sight (I added the links for context and background):

We also have another issue to think about, which is, Global Warming.

Perhaps another hint is seen in Garbow's prophecy remark quoted by US News & World Report about the future of the global warming issue, which possibly portended the direction he thought he might take, post-Obama:

I only found out about Ecotricity today, and am shocked (though I shouldn't be) that what's happening here clearly demonstrates that «global warming» can't be the real issue, or corporations like EDF would realise that what they are doing ultimately (when actual costs are counted), is increasing their carbon footprint (just think of all the people, documents, transportation that are needed over the course of a court - case).

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

This was really an instance of domestic politics trumping policy, and because domestic politics said, «Your base doesn't like Kyoto, doesn't think global climate change is a real issue, and hates regulation,» we never talked about the things that we were doing that were addressing the issue.

Asked how often, if ever, before taking this survey they had thought about how global warming might affect people's health, seven in 10 said they had given the issue little or no thought.

While Exxon now appears to be moving to the right side of the global warming issue, here's what some of the thinks tanks they continue to fund say about global warming on their websites and the amount of money they have received from Exxon since 1998:

When one man mentioned «the elephant in the room,» referring to global population issues, another stood up and said, «I thought he was talking about me.

In fact, I don't think I have much to argue about your initial post but it does relate directly to the famous issue of the 40s - 70s global cooling, and the alleged aerosols explanation.

Other studies have shown a similar effect: Republicans who think they understand the global warming issue best are least concerned about it; and among Republicans and those with higher levels of distrust of science in general, learning more about the issue doesn't increase one's concern about it.

It's understandable to take that position when alarmists are telling you things like don't have more kids and extreme things like that, but at the same time just because scientists were wrong about global freezing in the 70s doesn't mean the current climate change issue isn't worth giving serious thought.

Regarding Alex Merz's comment: the problem with the debate about global warming (and many other environmental issues) is that the uninformed are thinking that they ARE informed because they are getting their information well - spun from «authorities» like Crichton and Lomborg and Gregg Easterbrook and Patrick Michaels.

The Disengaged (12 percent) do not know and have not thought much about the issue at all and say that they could easily change their minds about global warming.

Jeni and Brad both argue that I don't spend enough time thinking about the global environment, and Felix raises the issue, too.

93 One of our fundamental beliefs is that lawyers generally — not just constitutional advocates before the United States Supreme Court — need access to the scope of arguments available through a global approach.94 Consequently, we think the advocacy component of the traditional LRW course may be the best place to think about incorporating a global legal issue.

London, United Kingdom About Blog Green Alliance is a think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues.

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