To imagine that adaptation could be accomplished without staggering human and economic cost is all but impossible.So to avoid probable disaster, humanity must find a way not to burn some 80% of proven fossil fuel reserves (or to suck the resulting carbon out of the air and put it somewhere it won't do damage).
In fact, during most of his remarkable career, Bonatti climbed to avoid contact with unreliable humanity.
But we have come to value human life more highly, and it is now more crucial to our humanity to avoid squandering it.
Having said that, the decade of lost opportunity has made it all but impossible, using emissions reductions alone, for humanity to avoid breaching the 2C safety barrier.
Otherwise, instead of developing the institutional strengths that may allow humanity to avoid catastrophic outcomes, we will find ourselves faced with companies pursuing such madcap schemes as that of mining asteroids.
We only have a few years to bend the global curves of negative global environmental change to avoid disastrous outcomes for humanity.
An emotional John Kerry said Monday that Hiroshima's horrible history should teach humanity to avoid conflict and strive to eradicate nuclear weapons as he became the first U.S. secretary of State to tread upon the ground of the world's first atomic bombing.
After the events of the first film of the Alien vs. Predator franchise, the Predator has been charged by his society to hunt down and destroy any trace of Alien activity taking place in a small American town, in order to avoid its detection by humanity.
If we only explain historical disasters with the cruelty of individuals we destroy the possibility of understanding the human mechanisms, which in turn are necessary in order to avoid any future crimes against humanity".
Scientists have warned that greater international cooperation is needed if humanity is to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs, believed to have been wiped out after an asteroid struck what is now Mexico 66 million years ago.
