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Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation.
And unless we address this invisibility, we are going to get the results that we are seeing, which is a gradual degradation and loss of this valuable natural asset.
And you can't really have a proper model for development if at the same time you're destroying or allowing the degradation of the very asset, the most important asset, which is your development asset, that is ecological infrastructure.
But ultimately, those realities are shadowed by suffering, abuse, degradation, marginalization.
Widespread water pollution and massive degradation of lakes and rivers.
Timed degradation: packaging that is good until you don't want it to be good anymore, and dissolves on cue.
This exoskeleton becomes stiff and soft in just the right areas of the running cycle, to protect the biological joints from high impacts and degradation.
So I want you to imagine with me a future where in every home that has a chronic disease patient, there is a device like this device sitting in the background and just monitoring passively sleep, breathing, the health of this chronic disease patient, and before an emergency occurs, it would detect the degradation in the physiological signal and alert the doctor so that we can avoid hospitalization.
We must try to minimize environmental degradation.
You are also concerned about the degradation of the environment.
Developed countries recognize that they have a real, important responsibility not only just to manage their CO2 emissions and some of the degradation that they're contributing to the world, but also as trendsetters in R&D.
This was called the Degradation of Dreyfus.
Livestock is also one of the biggest culprits in land degradation, air and water pollution, water shortages and loss of biodiversity.
Are we stuck with rampant urban displacement, with environmental degradation?
We are participating in the degradation of humans.
By 2050, there will be an additional 140 million people who are at risk of being displaced due to environmental degradation.
And second: the ability of these natural ecosystems to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester it in the natural habitats is currently getting compromised, as they're experiencing serious degradation because of human actions.
Soils around the world are experiencing unprecedented rates of degradation through a variety of human actions that include deforestation, intensive agricultural production systems, overgrazing, excessive application of agricultural chemicals, erosion and similar things.
Soil degradation is bad for many reasons, but let me just tell you a couple.
And second: soil use and degradation, just in the last 200 years or so, has released 12 times more carbon into the atmosphere compared to the rate at which we're releasing carbon into the atmosphere right now.
Fortunately, I can also tell you that there is a solution for these two wicked problems of soil degradation and climate change.
And if we do so, we can then simultaneously address two of the most pressing global challenges of our time: climate change and soil degradation.
This leads to the flood of enzymes and degradation seen in osteoarthritis, but is driven by different inflammatory proteins called cytokines.
You know, between the environmental degradation and the crashing of the world markets you're talking about.
Because from a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.
It may be that the social singularity ahead is the one that we fear the most: a convergence of catastrophes, of environmental degradation, of weapons of mass destruction, of pandemics, of poverty.
The critics point to the 500 billion dollars spent in Africa since 1970 and say, and what do we have but environmental degradation and incredible levels of poverty, rampant corruption?
A lot of the experience of people here who've been in the oceans for a long time has just been seeing this degradation, the places they saw that were beautiful getting worse, depressing.
So I proposed a story on the global fish crisis, in part because I had personally witnessed a lot of degradation in the ocean over the last 30 years, but also because I read a scientific paper that stated that 90 percent of the big fish in the ocean have disappeared in the last 50 or 60 years.
And I think that's what we're doing when we're asking people to engage with our agenda around environmental degradation and climate change.
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