Sentence examples for mere resource from inspiring English sources

Even worse, they downgrade the human being to a mere resource, no more privileged than others in the design of systems to produce short-term gains for shareholders.

Today we are beginning to see the planet and all its subsystems as beings deserving of life, and no longer mere resource piles and waste dumps.

Only an illiterate invader thinks of this river, that herd of bison, or the wind itself as a mere resource; only a benighted land-management consultant can blissfully ignore the fact that our relationship to the land around us is, or should be, a dialogue and that participation in that dialogue can involve deep knowledge, not only of the words, but also of the things they denote.

The wiki service attracts a very decent 7 million unique visitors per month to its network of over 12 million pages, and has plans of turning it from a mere resource of information to a full-fledged collaborative work space.

Bookchin contends that capitalism and market relationships, if unchecked, have the capacity to reduce the planet to a mere resource to be exploited.

The objection is that such language promotes the tendency to think of natural things as mere resources for humans or as raw materials with which human labour could be mixed, not only to produce consumable goods, but also to generate human ownership (Plumwood 1993, Sagoff 2004).

Heidegger's objection to aesthetic enframing, then, is not just that the work of art is increasingly falling under the influence of enframing that artworks too are becoming mere resources for the art industry, standing reserves piled in storerooms "like potatoes in a cellar" to be quickly and efficiently "shipped like coal…or logs…from one exhibition to another" (PLT 19/GA5 3).

As I say regularly, considering nature as free and unlimited or people as a mere resources is economically stupid, socially unacceptable and increasingly legally dangerous.

To do justice to disabled people's existence, knowledge, and politics, feminist philosophers [End Page 260] should avoid making disability a mere theoretical resource for their work.

Equally disturbing is a culture so remote from nature that it is viewed as a mere backdrop or resource to be mined and exploited with no thought for the consequences.

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