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Confronting the growing challenge means that
humanity
can no longer afford to ignore the inexhaustible resource found in the organic material that the sun provides each day through photosynthesis.
Planetary Boundaries and Human ProsperitySTOCKHOLM – The future of
humanity
will depend on mastering a balancing act.
For each of those processes, it proposes a boundary – a quantitative ceiling – beyond which we risk inducing abrupt changes that could push our planet into a state that is more hostile to
humanity.
Worryingly, our most recent update in January, which confirms the nine boundaries and improves their quantifications further, indicates that
humanity
has already transgressed four: climate change, nitrogen and phosphorus use, biodiversity loss, and land-use change.
If we are to ensure that our planet remains one on which all of
humanity
can thrive, we will have to pursue a new paradigm of prosperity.
“To those seeing and hearing him, the ruler should appear to be all mercy, all faithfulness, all integrity, all humanity, and all religion.
If you do not see
humanity
in your counterpart, you will not talk to him.
The fact is that
humanity
cannot afford to act gradually on this issue.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most direct of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proliferation of military nuclear technology is one of the major threats to humanity, particularly if this technology falls into terrorists’ hands.
Many political liberals regard nation-states and the loyalties they inspire as obstacles to the wider political integration of
humanity.
In their burlesque approach to humanity, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are the most enduring and endearing clownish couple in world literature.
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
Yet even at a cost of a few billion dollars, the human benefits per dollar saved would be among the greatest contributions possible for
humanity.
Our willingness to spend money seems to be much greater for war than for peaceful and preventative solutions to the great problems facing humanity, and especially facing the poorest of the poor.
In an era defined by amoral political leadership and eroding social values, thinking about the essence of
humanity
has never been more important.
We need politicians willing and able to rise above their own power interests, or the particular interests of their parties or states, and act in accord with the fundamental interests of today's
humanity
-- that is, to behave the way everyone should behave, even though most may fail to do so.
Over the past two years, it has been established that the Montreal Protocol has also spared
humanity
a significant level of climate change, because the gases that it prohibits also contribute to global warming.
Charity inspires, reassuring us of our humanity, but it is often capricious.
But it even seems to form the heart of our
humanity.
Its name is a warning, informing
humanity
that the great inventions produced by rational minds also expose us to unprecedented dangers.
Long before the civil war in former Yugoslavia, I concluded that the world needed an international court to try governments and army commanders for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change, like Pope Francis’s recent encyclical Laudato Si', is a call to humanity, regardless of faith, to work together to protect the planet upon which we depend.
Many have pointed out that we are the first generation to have hard evidence of the enormous damage that
humanity
is causing to natural ecosystems, and probably the last that can truly do something about it.
Science tells us we have to act; our faith and
humanity
compel us to do so.
First, the regime threatened to conduct more nuclear tests if the United Nations does not withdraw its recommendation to prosecute the country’s leaders for crimes against
humanity
at the International Criminal Court.
While getting the facts wrong can easily result in misguided, fear-based policies, a more balanced, fact-based recognition of what
humanity
has achieved enables us to focus our efforts on the areas where we can achieve the most good (often where we are already doing well).
All
humanity
is faced by this crucial dilemma: to silently watch a suicidal self-propulsion of our civilization; or to become active participants in the maintenance of global public assets, including the most precious one of all – our planet and its biosphere – of which we are a part.
A President in the DockNEW YORK – In a way, the stir aroused by the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against
humanity
in Darfur is a surprise.
China may be home to 20% of humanity, but for more than two decades its fertility rate has been lower than the “replacement” level (that required to maintain the current population), with population growth expected to turn negative within the next two decades.
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