All in all, non-OECD countries now account for 60percentt of all global emissions; in 2000 that percentage was 45. (And before we OECD country-ites pat ourselves on the back for our climate-change enlightenment and point fingers at the "Third World -ers, let's not forget that a lot of those increasing emissions in non-OECD countries are to produce cheap goods for us to import and consume).
This is, after all, a society on the threshold of change – the Enlightenment or the modern era – described by cultural historian Carl Schorske as "the passing of the aristocracy to the ennobled bourgeoisie [which] must learn to yield power to the new forces of democracy in the 20th century".
Culture is fluid and dynamic and its harmful elements can also change with education, enlightenment, and the rule of law.
Periodic persecutions of Jews in western Europe continued until the late 18th century, when the Enlightenment changed their position, at least in the West.
A rose by many names Beauty and the beasts Beyond bling The clamour for glamour Marques for millennials Experience counts Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsAttitudes changed with the Enlightenment and the advent of liberal economics.
Amsterdam's wild side Where eagles dare Hearts and minds The long view Trees of knowledge Averting the sixth extinction Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThe Enlightenment changed man's attitude to the rights of others.
Much as she resembles a Roman goddess of good fortune, the three clinging children she juggles mark her as the Buddhist deity Hariti, an infant-gobbling demon, who, after a little enlightenment, changed her ways.
Role models are necessary, but in the long haul they don't cause me to stop and wonder how this nugget of enlightenment changes my perceptions about myself, or the Latino American legacy.
The party identities change; the arc of enlightenment does not.
If we talk seriously about British values, then the noblest and most common of them all used to be the conviction that, with will and enlightenment, historical change could be managed.
The industrial and commercial developments, already significant by themselves, were the cause, and perhaps also the effect, of a wider and still more momentous change preceding the Revolution the Enlightenment.
