Sentences with phrase «which humanity»

Attack on Titan is a popular anime about a world in which humanity lives in walled cities to protect against gigantic carnivorous monsters called Titans — and it'll be an Xbox and PC game in August.

Instead of using today's tech to spin an even crazier, more futuristic tale, Human Revolution is a prequel, in which humanity hasn't been completely overtaken by nanotech but is in the midst of a biomechanical revolution.

The story follows the revolt from its earliest stages to its final outcome, and explores a future in which humanity must contend with the ramifications of extending its reach beyond Earth.

The Book of Joan is a retelling of the story of Joan of Arc set in a post-apocalyptic future in which humanity has left the Earth to live on a floating platform far above the surface.

This topic connects with the question of a zero -[energy]- growth economy, which we ultimately need to be truly sustainable — and which humanity really has apparently only barely begun to think about.

STOCKHOLM — The world's top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible climatic changes.

These tables and graphs help to explain the precarious situation in which humanity finds itself, as the world leaves an era of food surpluses and enters one of food scarcity.

I certainly don't think you are on the right track in thinking that there is a background stability to the carbon cycle which humanity disrupts.

Yet he can scarcely be called unconcerned about the issue of climate disruption: it was Broecker who created the image of the climate «beast,» which humanity is now collectively prodding with the «sharp stick» of greenhouse gases.

Are we in the process of ruining the tiny part of the planet in which humanity can survive?

A cumulative industrial - era limit of ∼ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

The whole holocene, during which humanity thrived, has been a period of climatic change.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

For instance, the introduction to the Society's latest report reveals: «Changes in climate have significant implications for present lives, for future generations and for ecosystems on which humanity depends.»

Between them, these men paint a picture, from the psychology of the individual, through to the functioning of the planet's natural processes, in which humanity simply can not help but steer a course for catastrophe without their intervention.

In my previous post, I described the Scylla and Charybdis between which humanity must sail in the 21st century — energy poverty and climate change — and recounted a recent debate about how best to tack between them.

If it gets much hotter than that, we will most likely be confronted by levels of drought and severe storms for which humanity has no precedent.

Businesses, consumers, governments — everybody must work together and take the eco-friendly initiative to protect our planet (within which humanity has a clearly vested interest), but it all starts when somebody takes that first step forward.

Once triggered, an abrupt downward spiral could ensue which humanity might be helpless to stop.

Paleoclimate evidence and ongoing global changes imply that today's CO2, about 385 ppm, is already too high to maintain the climate to which humanity, wildlife, and the rest of the biosphere are adapted.

My appeal is, therefore, to responsibility, based on the task that God has given to man in creation: «to till and tend» the «garden» in which humanity has been placed (cf. Gen 2:15).

That's significant considering that the core questions were how do we come up with a future in which humanity thrives when there are 9 billion of us, mostly urban, and stretching planetary and political boundaries.

The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.

Thanks to the many contributors to this discussion and to other discussions like those occuring in the Earth & Sky community and the Orion community, we can share an adequate understanding of the distinctly human - derived predicament with which humanity is soon to be confronted.

I would liken the predicament more to a Faustian bargain in which humanity has been granted supernatural power through the bounty of divine energy stored in fossil fuels; and after a few generations of blissful consumption, the devil has returned for his due.

In light of the hard - won scientific consensus developed by the IPCC, has the time not yet come to «center» our discussion on what we know of climate change, based upon good science, and talk about what we are going to do in order to address the human - driven predicament in which humanity finds itself in these early years of Century XXI?

Is there some threshold of understanding after which humanity will galvanize around a push to decarbonize energy menus?

Reason or intelligence can not escape itself as it conceives the extravagant perceptual universe in which humanity exists.

The exhibition is part of Saraceno's larger, long - term project titled «Aerocene», the artist's vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the planet's fossil - fuel resources, and instead resides in collective airborne cities.

For me this show has let me take personal power back in being able to contribute and heal the world which humanity has broken.

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities is part of Saraceno's larger, long - term project titled Aerocene, the artist's vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the planet's fossil - fuel resources, and instead resides in collective airborne cities.

The film casts a relationship between man and machine in which humanity is denigrated to serve an alien species born from its own hands.

Kline creates artworks and exhibitions that consider the ways in which our humanity has been transformed, commodified, and instrumentalized within neoliberal society.

Huyghe's work shows us an apocalyptic world in which humanity has been eradicated, with the monkey's lingering training the only relic of human civilisation.

The series is set as the title depicts, in the underground Metro tunnels in which humanity has taken refuge after a nuclear war.

It is a beautiful place in which humanity lives at one with nature, occasionally threatened by evildoers but always saved by the heroic, the just and their animal companions.

It is useful to examine the context in which humanity evolved to appreciate other ways we may be wired to collectively make bad investment choices.

In a distant future in which humanity has practically conquered death, the population is controlled by Scythes, the only beings capable of causing death — and teens Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch have just been chosen as Scythe apprentices.

The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up.

Its final denouement in which humanity seems miraculously saved from the alien menace comes across as rushed and tacked on.

But what is most shocking is the direction in which humanity headed given the parameters of the experiment, how animalistic we can become given freedom to do so, and how cruel we can so easily be to each other.

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Humanity has evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee.

Naturopathic medicine strives to create a healthy world in which humanity may thrive

Naturopathic medicine is committed to the creation of a healthy world in which humanity may thrive.

A cumulative industrial - era limit of ∼ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

Mars should be an objective in which all humanity can share.

limit of ~ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

Industrialists may hope to dominate nature, and environmentalists to protect it — but both camps depend on the same dualism, on a conception of nature as something to which humanity has no fundamental link, and in which we have no inherent place.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

More acreage was converted to growing crops between 1950 and 1980, than from 1700 to 1850, and arable land is one of nine «planetary boundaries» that scientists have identified — limits past which humanity should fear to tread.