Sentences with phrase «vast human misery»
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries endorsed the caution, which comes on the 25th anniversary of a letter released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992, advising that «a great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided.»
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»
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living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...
They are using their vast political power to leverage a future of total human servitude to corporate ideology, while the independent coal miners and oil roughnecks are returned to a life of poverty and misery.
The suffering and misery of life made difficult by limited resources is a fact of life for vast numbers of human beings, and population pressures play an increasing important role.