What makes the climate agreement particularly significant is the increasing recognition that our lives are intimately connected to nature and that, far from being all-powerful, humanity is intensely vulnerable to any changes in the balance of the environment.
The creation of intelligence more powerful than humanity's represents a point beyond which prediction becomes impossible.
The capital markets are one of the most powerful forces humanity has created, and while occasionally (ok, often) it can go rogue, harnessing its power is the only realistic way renewable energy will receive the investment capital needed to scale and have the impact we need.
It's a bold attempt to capture one of the most powerful forces of humanity -- so powerful exactly because of that humanity, its universality and its connective nature.
Quoting from influential thinkers of the post-Medieval world, he shows how Europeans acquired a powerful conviction that humanity should and would rule nature, not the other way around.
The stage is set for a powerful fable about humanity's short‑sightedness.
The cumulative result is a powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity.
To rid the earth of nuclear weapons and to establish an effective regime against violators, a powerful segment of humanity must be organized on behalf of these goals.
