Many of the challenges confronting humanity -- homelessness, drug abuse, hunger, recidivism, even mental illness -- she asserts, "have to do with not being able to take care of ourselves in a society that only values you on what you have".
The Herbert and Nell Singer Fellowship, which she established as a tribute to Herb, is today a fitting legacy of their shared passion for scientific investigation and their belief in the importance of basic research in providing answers to the many health problems that confront humanity.
Even, you could argue, confronting humanity itself.
Eventually, however, an Earth-bound NEO of some size will confront humanity with a disaster movie scenario.
In recent years, the threat of global climate change has come to be seen as one of the most serious confronting humanity.
For the past 32 years, the goal of the WEF annual meeting has been the same: to be "the event where the leading issues confronting humanity are discussed and debated".
There will be a never ending set of potential catastrophes that confront humanity and the way we will avoid succumbing to those catastrophes is well-educated kids that have the appropriate perspective and judgment as to how to use that education and their technology for good. .
Nor does he worry about the future of the theater: "Theater is the place where we come to confront humanity.
Motherboard sat down with the United States' most famous and surely busiest former vice president at this year's Social Good Summit, where we talked about two possible futures Gore sees confronting humanity. .
Motherboard sat down with the United States' most famous – and surely busiest – former vice president at this year's Social Good Summit, where we talked about two possible futures Gore sees confronting humanity. .
