Sentence examples for Human prospect from inspiring English sources

The refusal to believe that the human prospect is foreclosed is the source of the humanist's hope, both then and now.

Failure to implement a global sustainability plan that addresses excess consumption and over-population while ensuring greater social equity may well be fatal to the human prospect.

Imagine, therefore, a world where carbon emissions have long been steadily declining at a handsome profit, because saving fuel costs less than buying fuel; where global climate has stabilized and repair has begun; and where this planetary near-death experience has finally made antisocial and unacceptable the arrogance that let cleverness imperil the whole human prospect by outrunning wisdom.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 1834) demonstrated perfectly the propensity of each generation to overthrow the fondest schemes of the last when he published An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), in which he painted the gloomiest picture imaginable of the human prospect.

Without overtly articulating the hope that lies in the natural world when the human prospect is fouled, Wray's calmly lyrical evocation of an Austrian mountainside gives voice to his belief that this is where health -- and perhaps even salvation -- lies for Voxlauer: "The sweet damp smell of the ponds rose up to him as he passed the standing water.

In interviews several years ago, according to National Public Radio, Lévi-Strauss offered a gloomy view of the human prospect.

When asked about global trends and human prospects, I used to call myself a "despairing optimist," taking that term from the work of one of my heroes, René Dubos.

In the end, I credit Flannery for swinging the narrative away from what I tend to call "woe is me, shame on you" rhetoric and toward a more hopeful view of human prospects.

Before reaching its central message, the first half of The Affluent Society is devoted to demonstrating how classical economic theory, from Adam Smith to Malthus to David Ricardo, projects a grim view of human prospects, casting an air of pessimism over the socioeconomic study of the human condition.

Notably, the potential learning-by-doing role of American students and scholars in advancing human prospects in struggling regions came up today at a meeting organized by the United States Agency for International Development (which just celebrated its 50th anniversary) and hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Like most religious sciences it aims at advancing humans' prospect of redemption in the world to come.