Sentences with phrase «world from catastrophe»

Not exact matches

The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

This is how the growing catastrophes in the physical and political environments are going to be solved — not through «spiritual» retreats from the real world.

«The exodus of Christians from the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] countries is a catastrophe for the whole world.»

Aside from the ten Americans, the students are from Central and Eastern Europe and are typically excited by the challenge of rebuilding their world after the catastrophe of communism.

An obvious difficulty is that there is no world government undergirded by a common set of life - fulfilling values and supported by the necessary force and administrative efficiency to save the world from atomic destruction, starvation, and environmental catastrophe.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

Catastrophe as such is the result of destructive causal forces existent in the world; its power derives from past actuality as it impinges upon us, and not directly from God.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

It's now clear that that the world can not avoid climate catastrophe without addressing the staggering emissions from the largest meat and dairy conglomerates.

He added that the most «important thing is to make sure we get the right result from a referendum that's held to avoid the catastrophe to the countries economy and our political standing in the world.

(Or maybe it wasn't so skewed — as we see from some of their vintage home movies, their apartment gave a good view of the World Trade Center circa 2000, scene of the century's most cinematic catastrophe.)

World War Z takes a calculable, routine zombie script (take your pick from any of the «Dead» movies) and molds it with a thriller where a protagonist has to laboriously unearth a fixture to a global catastrophe (think «Contagion») to create a must - see summer blockbuster.

* Online Premiere * When Zeke, a gifted saxophone player and rollerblader, makes a telepathic connection with an alien, he must decode their link in order to save the world from environmental catastrophe.

The cast felt as if it was restraining itself before, but now these actors appear to be going through the motions, content simply to be participants in a globe - trotting plot about espionage gone wrong, various and dangerous government agencies from around the world attempting to cover up their mistakes with extreme prejudice, and, of course, the possibility of a weapon of mass destruction getting into the wrong hands and setting off a global catastrophe.

Byrne stars alongside Dwayne Johnson to save the world from global catastrophe in the action film Rampage loosely based on the video game of the same name.

From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe.

Reading such fiction from various regions of the world can provide insight into the nature of what was lost there, as well as a look at societies» possible reactions to catastrophe.

Since the forex market is dependent on the currency prices, smallest instances like rainfall to natural catastrophe, from little political turbulence to change of governments, all while leaving an effect on the currency rates can also make it the most unpredictable market in the world.

From Daedalic Entertainment, the makers of The Whispered World, comes a new, thrilling adventure: A New Beginning takes you to a dark and frightening vision of a future, where a global climate catastrophe threatens the existence of humanity.

REFERENCE Weisman, Alan The World Without Us New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007 Diamond, Jared Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed New York, Penguin Books: 2005 McKibben, Bill The End of Nature New York, Random House, 1989 McKibben, Bill Eaarth: Making Like on a Tough New Planet New York, St. Martin's Press: 2010 Kolbert, Elizabeth Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change New York, Bloomsbury: 2006 Kolbert, Elizabeth The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History New York, Picador, 2014 Smith, Lawrence C.

This year's acclaimed performance festival Prototype: Opera / Theater / Now, known for producing some of the most cutting - edge musical theater in the city, brings the world premier of «Angel's Bone,» an opera about human trafficking from the eclectic composer Du Yun, and «Dog Days,» a moving opera from David T. Little and Royce Vavrek about how one family survives in the aftermath of an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Below you can read a helpful «Your Dot» contribution in which Synolakis reflects on how the world has, and hasn't, acted to reduce risk from tsunamis since that extraordinary catastrophe on Boxing Day 10 years ago.

Me, I don't think warmer winter nights are that big a deal, and not seeing any catastrophes from the last 2 ° warming, I'm not expecting a slightly warmer world to be that much different from today.

The end - of - the - world prognostications from the Left of global warming catastrophe that never came but, the Left never cared if they were right or wrong about that and it does not worry them that the EPA prefers politics to science.

What's missing from this logic is, we will be spending trillions of dollars on new infrastructure throughout the world in coming decades — the question to ask is whether that spending locks us into current patterns of fossil fuel dependance, inevitable shortages, pollution, war and climate catastrophe.

With the US under Donald Trump indicating it wants to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, China is increasingly seen as a world leader in the battle to cut carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe.

We can't institute the policies needed to save the nation and the world from multi-decade (if not multi-century) catastrophe if traditional progressives are the only ones pushing this issue.

In the real world we face climate catastrophe from the burning of fossil fuels.

With the U.S. under Donald Trump indicating it wants to withdraw from the Paris agreement, China is increasingly seen as a world leader in the battle to cut carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe.

From: http://www.thegwpf.org/the-climate-record/4377-unchanging-science-why-climate-skepticism-is-a-virtue-not-a-vice.html «Think of it this way: The premise of catastrophe produces the conclusion that the political and economic underpinnings of Western civilization must be discarded -LSB-...] Now, in a purely logical world, the rejection of the premise would mean that we don't have to accept the conclusion.

Although another ice age might not happen for millions of years, «we are not wholly safe from such a world catastrophe.»

It's one of the (many) ironies of this whole debate that some see heroic collective action as the only way to avoid catastrophe (one comment I've read recently is that we need a «World War II scale effort to save humanity from self - destruction.»)

The eyes of the world will be on Alaska, as the United States hands over chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Finland on May 11th, and many Alaska Native people want to make certain their voice is heard loud and clear: We must transition away from a fossil fuel economy that is threatening climate catastrophe across the world.

And now, finally, a pushback, one that's coming long way round, not from anywhere within the environmental sandbox but from the larger world, the disillusioned, post-bubble, impending - catastrophe world that Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz tagged as Of the 1 %, by the 1 %, for the 1 %.

When the plume in Jupiter's 8G gravity was as large as the entire Earth, geologists and astronomers knew our safe little world wasn't safe at all, and that catastrophe could rain from the sky at any moment.

Still, every country in the world meeting Kyoto's goals wouldn't save our children from the catastrophes a consensus of scientists predict.

It had the potential both to shock the world into economic transformation, averting future catastrophes, and to generate catastrophes of its own, including a shift into even more damaging technologies, such as biofuels and petrol made from coal.

But after the news that our dear green planet has been hauled back from the crevice of total catastrophe, that the world's great cities will be spared from inundation and destruction, the absence of celebration, the dull, flat, routine response of the world's population, poses a mystery.