Sentence examples for facing humankind from inspiring English sources

Global warming, or climate change if you prefer, is the greatest threat facing humankind this century.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Climate change, the greatest crisis facing humankind, wasn't mentioned even once.

As Jeffrey Sachs said last week, the problems facing humankind in the 21st century are of an altogether different order to those that faced our forebears.

Recognising global warming as "one of the most serious and complex challenges facing humankind," this year's WEF meeting devoted 23 sessions to climate change.

After 18 months work, the chairman of the IPCC working group looking at the impacts of climate change wrote the issue was "potentially the greatest global environmental challenge facing humankind".

So a great challenge faces humankind: to match the abolition of slavery with the global emancipation of girls and women.

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) resulting from infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is arguably the greatest medical and scientific challenge to face humankind in the past decade.

Today, the necessity of qualitative studies of water resources due to the wide variety of contaminant arrivals is inevitable and in most parts of the world is one of the most important challenges faced by humankind during recent years.

When faced with humankind's diversity, for centuries our nations have consistently tried to suppress or coerce the "other", and manipulated world events for our own supposed benefit, and look what it's got us.

The impact of climate change on natural systems has emerged as one of the most critical issues faced by humankind.