Sentences with phrase «year xxi»

In Book V, year XXI it is said:

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After playing for the New York Giants for a decade, offensive lineman Brad Benson retired from the game in 1987, a year after «Big Blue» beat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

It has been estimated that investment in science in the amount of EUR 7 billion / year in the beginning of XXI century may cause an increase in GDP of 200 billion euros / year already in 2030's.

British Columbia will be party central in February when the five rings of the XXI Olympic Winter Games roll in after several years of intense planning (and, if you ask the locals, some equally intense spending).

He has been the subject of major international exhibitions over the last 40 years, most recently at the Palazzo Cini, Venice (2015) and a retrospective simultaneously presented at three Italian institutions: MADRE — Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, GAM — Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, and MAXXI — Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (all 2014).

, Mo Space Manila; Equator Art Projects Singapore, 2014; Jerwood 20 Years, The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2014; Golden Sections, thewindshow@CPT, London, 2014; Head to Head, Rogue Project Space, Manchester, 2013; Small is Beautiful XXI Who's Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue, Flowers, London, 2013; Theory & Practice of the Small Painting, Equator Art Projects, Singapore 2013; Colour as Material, Finnish Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki, 2013; RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012; Back and Forth, B55 Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, 2012; Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, London, 2011.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

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?

It is possible for people to see how life as we know it and the integrity of Earth could be put at risk in these early years of Century XXI by economic powerbrokers and their bought - and - paid - for politicians, whose idolatry of economic globalization rules the world now.

Robert, if my wishes were granted and my magical thinking made real, the world in which we reside would of necessity be different from the way it is, so as to be made capable of supporting our unsustainable consumption, production and propagation activities, the colossal scale of which is threatening to engulf the Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

It is the Creation that is being overwhelmed by the unrestrained over-consumption, unbridled overproduction and unrestricted overpopulation activities of the human species, which can be seen so clearly overspreading the surface of Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

At least for me, your exchange of valuable perspectives on the human condition (# 19 and # 20), dramatizes some of the profound implications of the multi-faceted, human - induced predicament that could to be confronted by the human community in these early years of Century XXI.

The point I am feebly trying to make is simply this: the adamant and relentless pursuit of fossil fuel - based economic globalization, marked so starkly as it is by the rampant expansion of unbridled business activities we are seeing today, could possibly result in either cataclysmic ecologic challenges or economic collapse or both in these early years of Century XXI.

It seems to me the ecological challenges presented to the human community in these early years of Century XXI are necessary matters for discussion; however, our failure to acknowledge in open discussion «the human population factor» as a primary, driving force, one that is precipitating the ecological challenges visible on the far horizon, is making our best efforts insufficient.

Here we want to objectively identify an overlooked but primary aspect of the distinctly human - forced predicament that is presented to humanity in these early years of Century XXI.

Can someone explain how so many well - intentioned people are failing so miserably to share a common understanding of what is happening in our planetary home in these early years of Century XXI?

To do otherwise and, by so doing, choose willfully and foolishly to ignore the practical requirements of biophysical reality runs the risk of putting life as we know it and our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation in peril, even in these early years of Century XXI.

But the evidence of «weathering lasting just ten thousand [years]» is very much interesting (if you translate it to non-professional English) and hopeful that the geo processes that we need desperately in XXI century can be sped up.

Thanks for all you are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extirpation, the environment from irreversible degradation, the Earth from wanton dissipation of its resources and the family of humanity from reckless endangerment by the unbridled overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in these early years of Century XXI.