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A historical perspective on bridge building or any other engineering specialty provides a caveat about how our
humanity
affects our thinking.
But the real change will come only when all STEM programs provide students with the tools they need to carry out a credible assessment of their work’s effects on
humanity.
The two-year challenge should encourage computer science professors in the United States to integrate ethics into their undergraduate curriculum, so that STEM students can gain a deeper understanding of how technology affects
humanity.
A sense of common purpose, not just the operation of the market, binds
humanity
together.
Surprisingly, for such an extensive, cynically efficient cluster of humanity, the city displayed surprising civility and solidarity during and after the attacks.
Power sapped their
humanity.
But, by infusing us with their unique spirit and identity, our cities may, in fact, help to empower
humanity
to face the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century.
Australia accommodated these people with
humanity
and compassion, believing it to be an ethical and moral obligation.
To judge a country’s contribution (or, if you like, a country’s humanity), the official and unofficial intakes must be considered together.
For more than 50 years,
humanity
has warily eyed that lethal pendulum while statesmen debated how to mend its fraying cords.
This revolution in the internalities of our existence, which is unpredictable in its scope and uncertain in its direction, is taking place in a setting of deepening division in the material existence of
humanity.
These two great academic cultures also prefer to study
humanity
without having to mingle with flesh-and-blood human beings.
Huxley identified
humanity'
s achievements with legal conventions and medical technologies, artifices that extend human dominion by enabling people to be and do more than they could individually.
But it also shows that 80% of the benefits stand – and 80% of $11 trillion is still a whopping $9 trillion in benefits to
humanity
– on top of a reduction in lower poverty, child mortality, and pollution, higher life expectancy, and less gender- and race-based discrimination.
As Pope Francis put it in his encyclical on the environment, overcoming our challenges will require a “renewal of humanity.”
At a time when
humanity
is coming to measure the value of biodiversity and the importance of land and forests in climate control, Africa has much to gain by making itself the guardian of a heritage that is essential to humanity’s survival.
Nearly 200 years later,
humanity
still does not seem to understand water’s value, exemplified in decades of poor water management and governance practically everywhere.
Simply put, Islam – one of the world’s great religions, practiced by nearly one-quarter of
humanity
– missed its development takeoff.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift
humanity
into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny.
We must do our utmost to ensure that peaceful nuclear energy, when a country chooses to pursue it, remains at the service of
humanity.
Merkel’s
humanity
won her praise from the international community.
In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague condemned the systematic rape of women as a crime against
humanity.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight – the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan – that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global significance of the nuclear disaster.
Finally, our past technological triumphs did not actually conserve natural resources, but instead enabled
humanity
to mine and use these resources at a lower overall cost, thereby hastening their depletion.
Though India's one billion people constitute nothing less than one-sixth of humanity, and notwithstanding the fact that India is the world's largest democracy, India remains off the radar screen for most observers of the world economy.
Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our
humanity.
Even with a world population that continues to add tens of millions of new mouths every year, given continuing growth in Haber-Bosch fertilizer and a surprising trend toward a worldwide decline in birth rates (if you live about 50 years longer, according to the best estimates, you’ll see
humanity
reach zero population growth), it might be within humanity’s grasp to avoid mass starvation forever.
And so it was that large chunks of
humanity
in America and Europe became too indebted and too expensive to be anything other than discarded – and ready to be lured by Trump’s fear-mongering, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s xenophobia, or the Brexiteers’ shimmering vision of a Britannia ruling the waves again.
The Great Deflation poses a great question: can
humanity
design and implement a new, technologically advanced, “green” Bretton Woods – a system that makes our planet ecologically and economically sustainable – without the mass pain and destruction preceding the original Bretton Woods?
The Treason of the EconomistsLONDON – All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures – the correlation of normally unconnected events that jolt
humanity
out of a rut.
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