Sentences with phrase «unbridled human»

Surely, fairly, respectfully, steadily and carefully we can and we will find reasonable and sensible ways to limit unbridled human overgrowth activities and to enable measured implementation of sustainable development activities that serve the long - term best interests of humanity, life as we know it, and Earth.
For Pruitt, this is the position of the artist: an unbridled human, indifferent to convention and with every avenue open to him — each possibility equal to all others.»
For a long time I've sought some fresh, non-threatening approach to disarm readers» apprehensions about environmental destruction long enough that they might consider the impacts of unbridled human activity on the rest of nature — and on our own fate.
Niebuhr quoted with approval a comment that most «religion» is unbridled human self - assertion in religious disguise.

Not exact matches

Pro-Life Lefties «Abortion», writes the political director of the Huffington Post UK, «is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right - wingers talk of equality, human rights and «defending the innocent», while left - wingers fetishise «choice», selfishness and unbridled individualism.»
The economic crisis presently being endured in much of the West and beyond also reflects this truth: the whole meltdown in many ways had its source in that unbridled capitalism that decreed the autonomy of the individual and the moral good of each person being allowed to pursue wealth without any relationship to the rest of human society.
Predation is part of the way nature functions and humans are indeed part of nature, but there is something wrong with the form of predation that is inherent in unbridled economic or social competition among humans.
«We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Consti - tution was made only for a moral and religious people.
Hence McFague argues that when we put the world at risk with our unbridled exploitation of nature, God, the God who is incarnate within the creation, is at risk in human hands.
Yet at the same time, an unbridled, completely laissez - faire capitalist system can he as destructive to human life and to human value as any communist system might be, for unbridled capitalism will inevitably grind to that point where the capitalists are very few, owning all the means of production, and the masses are many, and they are being exploited.
It is significant, for example, that John Adams, during his first year as our first vice-president under the new liberal constitutional regime, said, «We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Negative freedom alone, according to Hart, made possible the unbridled greed exhibited by late modern capitalism, and led to the «exploitation of material and human resources on an unprecedentedly massive scale.»
The Day the Earth Stood Still comments on the dangers of nuclear knowledge without corresponding human wisdom; On the Beach paints a despairing picture of a world destroyed through unbridled nuclear warfare.
Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.
Anderson has found his power in the writer's room, showing the world an unbridled approach at the human condition, and not needing the normal theatrics for the energetic satire that he is exploring.
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The talk expands on «Sex on Paper,» a visual feature curated by New York - based artist Mathew Cerletty in the Art & Sex Edition — a selection of works on paper that «playfully reflect some of the many complications of human sexuality: fantasy, twisted obsession, unbridled lust, sweet vulnerability, and of course the simple beauty of a physical connection.»
Characteristic of Martin's unique form of narrative expression, the series incorporates era - defying visual sampling — think of Hans Baldung Grien and Gustave Doré working alongside comic artist Moebius — into a fantasy world of amusement parks, resorts, and experimental landscapes populated by figures engaged in unbridled acts across every facet of human experience.
I care about nature - surroundings which are threatened by industrial development and the massive costs created by global warming and unbridled capitalism and twist the attitude of contemporary human beings and society.
Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.
Please consider that reasonable and sensible ways must be found to regulate the skyrocketing growth of absolute global human population numbers; to check the unrestrained increases of conspicuous per human over-consumption; and to carefully and skillfully restrict the seemingly endless expansion of unbridled global economic growth.
Leaders of the human community can not fail in their declared mission to acknowledge, address and overcome certain global challenges already visible on the far horizon that evidently result from the huge scale and growth of unregulated propagation, unrestricted consumption and unbridled production activities of the human species on Earth.
Perhaps there is something of value in the following link regarding the challenges posed to humanity by unbridled consumption, production and propagation activities of the human species now overspreading the surface of Earth.
The continuous economic expansion we see today follows a course established at the dawn of our culture and may be about to reach a point in human history when human numbers and unbridled production could overwhelm the Earth.
Many too many so - called and self - proclaimed people with «expertise» assure us that we simply need to do nothing other than that which we are doing now; that we must «stay the course» of unbridled economic growth, increasingly conspicuous per - capita resource overconsumption, and unregulated propagation of absolute global human population numbers.
Evidently, concerns like long - term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.
If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we «free wheelers and dealers» desire.
At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.
«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»
Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.
If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we desire.
What scientific evidence, sound reasoning or common sense explanation can provide a foundation for expanding unbridled economic globalization even one more day, for increasing unrestrained per capita consumption beyond its present conspicuous level for one more week, and for condoning the projected addition of 70 to 80 million members of the human community in this year alone?
It is the Creation that is being overwhelmed by the unrestrained over-consumption, unbridled overproduction and unrestricted overpopulation activities of the human species, which can be seen so clearly overspreading the surface of Earth in these early years of Century XXI.
From my humble perspective, many leaders of the global economy are turning a blind eye to unchecked over-consumption, unbridled overproduction and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and dangerously degrading the environs of our planetary home.
Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.
Earth has restricted resources and, therefore, by its very nature can not be a foundation for the endless growth of human activities, especially given the colossal scale and unbridled growth of production, propagation and per human consumption.
By «giving» nature rights, we preserve and protect nature from the being ravaged by unrestrained overconsumption, unbridled overproduction and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species that are overspreading the surface of Earth in our time and threatening our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children and coming generations.
If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?
Before we can find our way forward to a good enough future for our children in a sustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surface of Earth.
If a root cause of the global threats on humanity's horizon now is the unbridled growth of absolute global human population numbers, our willful denial of this primary cause could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the children to reasonably address and sensibly overcome these threats.
The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.
This book is the definitive dialogue on the subject of paranoid hysterical paranoid alarmists and their denial of evidence for human - caused climate change — the money behind that denial, the political ideologies involved, and of course the unbridled greed that drives denial and denialism.
How, now, can Galileo possibly find peace when so many top - rank scientists refuse to speak out clearly, loudly and often regarding whatsoever they believe to be true about the distinctly human - induced, global predicament presented to the family of humanity in our time by certain unbridled «overgrowth» activities of the human species from which global challenges visibly issue now and loom ominously on the far horizon?
Thanks for all you are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extirpation, the environment from irreversible degradation, the Earth from wanton dissipation of its resources and the family of humanity from reckless endangerment by the unbridled overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in these early years of Century XXI.
«Too expensive to act»: Some contrarians admit that global warming exists, is caused by humans, and indeed has harmful effects, but assert that it is too expensive to mitigate global warming (they ignore the principle of risk management, use economic scenarios that ignore benefits of new technologies, assume a high «discount rate», and ignore devastating future economic costs of unbridled global warming).
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