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Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.
Another technological danger that threatens the future of democracy is the merger of information technology with biotechnology, which might result in the creation of algorithms that know me better than I know myself.
Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally.
The digital world cannibalizes time, and in doing so, I want to suggest that what it threatens is the completeness of ourselves.
It threatens the flow of love.
I cite those statistics around corporate board diversity because they are real, and I stand here today talking about this issue of racial discrimination because I believe it threatens to rob another generation of all the opportunities that all of us want for all of our children, no matter what their color or where they come from.
And I think it also threatens to hold back businesses.
The husband, furious, threatens to kill the American.
And by then, other science fiction nightmares may transition to reality: dumb robots going rogue, or a network that develops a mind of its own threatens us all.
It won't make financial sense, and if we manage our energy better, we also may be able to slow down, maybe even stop, this great ice melt that threatens us.
The very idea of becoming involved at the local level clashes fundamentally with existing cultural norms, and it threatens key organizational interests.
For example, in "Birds," the Chorus takes the role of different birds and threatens the Athenian judges that if their play doesn’t win first prize, they’ll defecate on them as they walk around the city.
But now that marriage is a romantic arrangement, infidelity threatens our emotional security.
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self.
On the other hand, it is also a society with a deeply patriarchal system, which rejects anything that threatens the male-female order.
The challenge that this phenomenon creates, what economists call employment polarization, is that it knocks out rungs in the economic ladder, shrinks the size of the middle class and threatens to make us a more stratified society.
And let's do it because this hate and contempt that flows through all of us every day makes us ugly and it corrupts us, and it threatens the very fabric of our society.
Now in this movie, that his client had written, Leo would play an oil industry lobbyist whose girlfriend, a local meteorologist, threatens to leave him because his work contributes to global warming.
Much of the technology that threatens our freedom and our dignity in the near-term future is being developed by companies in the business of capturing and selling our data and our attention to advertisers and others: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent.
And what that does from a security or a military part is it does three things: it changes the very operating environment that we're working in, it threatens our bases, and then it has geostrategic risks, which sounds kind of fancy and I'll explain what I mean by that in a second.
A model that's trashing the living world and threatens the lives of our descendants?
Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel the fields of general relativity and quantum mechanics: the black hole information paradox.
Collapsing near a small pool, the animal’s corpse threatens to infect the water.
Photography threatens fantasy.
So, what threatens to happen with this unfolding apocalypse is the collapse of global social organization.
It's not change or technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere.
It seriously threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, and especially in Africa and China.
But what really threatens humanity?
Viewing democracy as only elections is no longer adequate and threatens democracy itself.
Meanwhile a scientist named Florinda (Cinzia De Ponti as Cinthia Stewart) who works at a rival organisation called the 'West Ocean International' is brutally murdered when she threatens to expose someone within the organisation.
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