Promoting the concept of "integral ecology," Francis connected sinful actions against the natural world with the economic exploitation of impoverished human beings and the denigration of human rights.
When computers are installed, information gathering can be impoverished and human exchanges can become as rigid and frustrating as a call centre option list.
And yet we cannot but feel that it is essentially human all the same, and that it is speaking to us – perhaps even wailing at us – out of its own pitifully impoverished humanity.
A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s.
Reading these two biographies, one cannot help feeling that at least some early-21st-century writers are using a relatively impoverished vocabulary for describing the human character, especially one as complicated as Napoleon's: compared with the descriptions of contemporaries like Madame de Staël and Alfred de Vigny, these portraits seem flat and unsubtle.
By measuring the ratio of the percentage of microsatellite abundance to the percentage of human sequence that aligns to each genome, we also obtained an indication of whether sequences from each species were enriched or impoverished for microsatellites compared with human sequences (fig. 1 B ). Rather than following a phylogenetic trend, this ratio demonstrated species-specific enrichment.
As Kela writes, "mining and heavy industry displaced Adivasi communities, destroyed their livelihoods, failed to give them jobs and cut them loose to join the swelling workforce of migrant labourers, a sea of impoverished, overworked human beings, reduced to accepting the worst-paid jobs in city and countryside".
That human expression is inherently impoverished and impotent is also the awful suggestion, though on a much more intimate scale, of "Ashes to Ashes".
Nevertheless, he continues: "Human life would be impoverished if they were forgotten, or if definite answers were accepted without adequate evidence".
As modernism spread around the world, the vast developing world — divided, violent, weak, impoverished, but rich in natural and human resources — was nothing but a recipient of Western-oriented prescriptions of modernization.
