Sentences with phrase «which human civilization»

We are on the cusp of a revolution the likes of which human civilization has never experienced before.

But if we want to protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends we desperately need to do better.

Second, CO2 levels exceeding 350 ppm are creating a planet warmer than humans have ever lived in and are disrupting the physical and biological systems in which human civilization has developed.

I recommend this diagram of the climate envelope inside of which human civilization has flourished.

If we want to preserve a world similar to the one in which human civilization developed, scientists have concluded that we need to stabilize the level of CO2 below 350 parts per million (ppm).

Re 64: You don't seem to like the planet as it is now, the one which human civilization has adapted to over thousands of years?

The report was accompanied by endorsements from a long list of climate change luminaries, including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose blurb reads: «Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which human civilization has flourished.

That paleo - climatological portrait shows, for example, that the sea - level rise of 130 meters required roughly 10,000 years to retreat as a stabilized climate emerged in which human civilization has flourished.

The research takes as its desired stable state the Holocene epoch, the 10,000 years since the last ice age during which human civilization has flourished, and attempts to identify the key variables that might push planetary cycles past safe thresholds.

This human habit has already shifted atmospheric CO2 concentrations by more than 100 parts per million, which is the usual shift in concentration between a planet swathed in ice and the more temperate climes in which human civilization developed.

The murder of Abel by Cain represents the fratricidal, murderous violence upon which all human civilization is built.

Not exact matches

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

It is believed that the Mayas upset the balance between humans and nature, although the fall of their civilization probably corresponded to «a network of interaction in which any difficulty could have had repercussions on the whole» (Fonseca Zamora, 505).

The future of human civilization is in becoming more truly loving and «human» in the sense in which Jesus Christ has revealed us to ourselves.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

True, it desires that most legitimate civilizations should be preserved, yet it approves of the development of «a more universal form of human culture... one which will promote and express the unity of the human race» (art. 54) and favours a powerful international organization which, despite the United Nations, does not yet exist (art. 84).

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

It also made possible new adventures of the human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history in the western world.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

The possibility that our civilization and perhaps even the human race itself might be destroyed in atomic warfare has but given new intensity to the problem which has always haunted man the creature.3

The view that history is the encompassing horizon can be combined with a view of human existence which does not center in the city or even civilization.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

But it has become plain (in particular since the last war) that however urgent may be the planetary pressures driving us to unite, they can not operate effectively in the long run except under certain psychic conditions, some of which arise out of the human neo-mystique to be discussed in the next paragraph, but the rest of which merely recall and re-express, with a precise biological foundation, the broad lines of the empirical and traditional Ethics which has been evolved in some ten millennia of civilization.

Failure to control population, the possibility of the possession of atomic weapons by dozens of nations, the issues of race and colour which affect every society and every civilization, disclose the human condition shared by all.

Now, of course there are good people in the world, and there were good ones in the days of old as well, but as a civilization we have not shown the peace for which this word «civil» is suppose to stand for, maybe for some, but not to all as what YHWH wants for us as a human race.

Arbitrary and unpredictable «stop - gap» intervention on the part of God would destroy the continuity which is needed in science, technology, and human cooperation in civilization.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

Civilization is the dimension of religio - culture which, through its long process of historical cumulation and geographical expansion, constitutes the matrix of community life of the peoples; its inner, organic nexus crosses the boundaries of human communities, organizing them into a large - scale constellation.

Our civilization's moral code was founded on Judaeo - Christian revelation, which in turn gave rise to a rational conviction that every human person is made in the image of God.

He does not mean that once upon a time there was a Garden of Evil («the state of nature»), the experience of which taught humans at a specific date to value civilization.

When these traditions recede — as they are almost everywhere in the face of globalization — we shall see the re-emergence of the more brutal capacities of the human condition, which have long survived beneath the veneer of civilization.

So as the sun rises over Paris, the world stands at the beginning of a new era where agriculture, which was responsible for human civilization to evolve, will be responsible for human civilization to survive.

Not only do our practices spoil Mother Nature's design for the continuation of the human race, our civilization keeps on mutilating the mother by silencing her, by not helping her heal, and when breastfeeding, which could help her heal, doesn't work as expected, that too is taken away from her.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

So rather than thinking of competing and separate civilizations, we should think in terms of only one human civilization (one human story), comprised of multiple geo - cultural domains that contain sub-cultures, much like an ocean into which many rivers flow.

Places wild down the Amazonian forest which are extremely remote to any human civilization, yet the whole Amazonian forest is traversed by well defined borders and claimed by countries.

Once human beings are unable to «harm» — or affect — the environment in any way, they will of course be unable to exploit the environment for any human purposes, such as all those which constitute technological civilization.

Subsequent limited independence of the environment, with technical advance, allows human aggregations of a permanent nature and that increasing complexity of organization which we call civilization.

In the process, he lends a you - are - there immediacy to an era in which humans invented farming, settled in towns, and created civilization as we know it.

That is a threshhold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to human civilization as well as the natural world, by the IPCC and other's scientific judgment.

Human sacrifice took place at one time or another in just about every ancient civilization in which someone had the rank and power to decide who died, until the rise of Judeo - Christian and Islamic religions that condemned it.

«humans arent meant to eat grains» which is why every known civilization bases their diet off of some type of grain or starch.You cant name one that does nt.