Sentences with phrase «uncertainty of human control»

Suh addresses the nature of wildfires» large - scale government response projects, which reveal central questions about human presence in nature and the overwhelming uncertainty of human control over natural phenomena in our society.

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The uncertainty includes our own wavering over our human and economic response, layered over our inability to predict the ice sheet response as a function of CO2 and other climate drivers under our control.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.

On issues such as CRISPR and genetic engineering the EU is regulating itself out of the competition and many businesspeople are unaware that this will get much worse once the ECJ starts using the Charter of Fundamental Rights to seize control of such regulation for itself, which will mean not just more anti-science regulation but also damaging uncertainty as scientists and companies face the ECJ suddenly pulling a human rights «top trump» out of the deck whenever they fancy (one of the many arguments Vote Leave made during the referendum that we could not get the media to report, partly because of persistent confusion between the COFR and the ECHR).