![If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-humanity-wishes-to-preserve-a-planet-similar-to-that-on-which-civilisation-dev.jpg)
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humanity essentials culture
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. Rick Steves
humanity belief behavior
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs. Neale Donald Walsch
humanity lessons want
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood. Nate Berkus
humanity world bears
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding. Joseph Addison
humanity pity incitement
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
humanity world want
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity. Jose Saramago
humanity ill humans
The things that make us human often make us ill. Jonathan Rosen
humanity culture venus
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. Jacque Fresco
humanity literature becoming
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. Henry David Thoreau
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wish littles would-be
Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring Sarah Dessen
wish add walks
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate. Saint Augustine
wish body care
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for Zhuangzi
environmental might win
He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases). Nina Totenberg
environmental paradise parking
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Joni Mitchell
environmental social concern
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
environmental surprise problem
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. James Fallows
environmental development hunger
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
environmental realized
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. Jerry Costello
environmental farmers high incentives meet model producers program provides rewards standards unique
This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.
environmental point ridiculous technical view
It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too.
environmental educator slaughter
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close. Mike Patton