Sentences with phrase «urgent threat facing»

In a brilliant and heartfelt acceptance speech, DiCaprio made a compelling case for why all 34 million live viewers should take action on the «most urgent threat facing our entire species.»

It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating,» DiCaprio said, to applause from celebrities and others inside Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.

Not exact matches

«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.

, writing that «in the face of urgent threats like climate change, there are times where companies like Google must display moral leadership and carefully evaluate their political bedfellows.»

Probably the most serious and urgent challenge faced by the physical world now is the threat of climate change.

Moreover, we must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization at a time when our country must simultaneously solve two other worsening crises.

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

The climate threat is the most urgent one facing the planet and shutting down major non-carbon energy sources makes it that much harder to meet carbon reduction goals.

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»

With the possible exception of the rising threat of nuclear war, no issue facing humanity is more urgent than climate change.