DeMain's final point is that these crass reviews should make us "profoundly disheartened and pessimistic about the continued existence of humankind".
There are many resolutions, including those of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization and the General Assembly of the UN, which emphasize that nuclear weapons represent a real threat to the very existence of humankind and, therefore, that the only path to follow is their legal prohibition.
Perhaps the most difficult problem connected with the notion of providence is the existence of evil: humankind has perennially been faced with the question of how to reconcile the idea of a provident God or gods with the evident existence of evil in the world (see theodicy; evil, problem of).
The ocean is vital for the existence of all humankind, it is the engine of our planet driving weather, producing protein and contributing half our oxygen.
"Without the actions and existence of the world organisation, humankind would be a lot worse off than it is today, warts and all," he concludes.
The lyric centres on maya, or the illusory nature of human existence, as Harrison sings of humankind behaving as if "we own this whole world", oblivious to the consequences and the end that awaits the individual in this life.
Typical impatient American, I have rushed in for a few days, expecting to learn all about a community whose history dates back to the earliest era of human existence, in the "Cradle of Humankind" where the first upright humans left footprints 3.6 million years ago.
Weightless in orbit, they had reflected on the fragility of Earth's resources, the fact that national boundaries can not be seen from such heights and the mystery of humankind's existence in such an apparently deserted infinity.
These words apparently point back to the polytheistic mythology (the existence of divine, magical powers; the gods' jealousy of humankind; the tree of eternal life; etc).
To disavow Rose's existence based upon some character flaw is to deny the imperfections of humankind that each of us holds to some extent.
Appleton (1975) explains the existence of a preference for natural environments as an innate characteristic of humankind, which can also be affected by social, historical and cultural influences.
