Not exact matches
If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed
by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or
by one of the earliest of civilizations,
one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters,
little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and
threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?
There were only three men who could conceivably
threaten Palmer at this point: Finsterwald, two strokes back
by virtue of that extraordinary 65; Player, four behind;
Littler,
one behind Player.
Stop me if you've heard this
one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played
by Ron Perlman,
by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a
little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed
by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and
threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played
by Rupert Grint,
by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run
by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.
This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given
by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused
by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in
one part of the world who are harming or
threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done
little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves
by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused
by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in
one part of the world who are harming or
threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done
little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves
by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
These features include: (a) it is a problem caused
by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in
one part of the world who are harming or
threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done
little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves
by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.