Human society, future

T ood packaging reflects the needs of human societies and their technical capacities to provide for these needs. The kinds and amounts of food supply, the methods of food preservation, and the availability of packaging materials determine the packaging systems in any culture—be it prehistoric, present, or future. 

Marc Van Regenmortel We have been totally incapable in the past of predicting the technological innovations achieved by human design. Biological systems are considerably more complex than human artefacts or weather patterns and predicting biological evolution or the future of human society is clearly not possible. 

To understand the past and envisage the future of the human society we should never forget that the last step forward in the development of life on earth, the evolution of brains with the ability to acquire drives for goals unnecessary for the survival of the individual or the species, is based on a cortical mechanism that humans share with a couple of animal species. An active focus is created in the brain through learning a population of neurons ascend into Group 4. 

This chapter describes the history of another anthropogenic threat to biodiversity conservation,—the atmospheric deposition of air-bome pollutants—in relation to one conservation organization. The Nature Conservancy. As a single case study, it is symbolic of a growing trend in conservation. An ever-increasing body of science more accurately and directly links the consequences of human society s actions to the very natural resources upon which we depend for survival. As this evidence mounts, it calls into question the past actions and future roles and responsibilities that conservation organizations must play to conserve not only biodiversity for its intrinsic value, but also the essential ecological services provided by natural resources that are central to our very survival. 

There is no progress without research. This slogan is frequently quoted when it comes to showing ways into the future of human society. One of the most prominent expectations that society has is the realization of a modem health system that incorporates the latest findings of research-an expensive undertaking which should, simultaneously be unexpensive for the patient. The problem is that research and science are costly processes, very costly This is especially tme for medical research because the newly developed technologies and techniques are becoming ever more sophisticated. 

Thus, the main characteristics of biotechnology are integration, orientation towards applications but also a considerably impact on human society in the future ( Biosociety , FAST, 1980 Moser, 1988). 

The role of industrial fermentation in human society is likely to expand in the future because of increasing requirements for resources. 

So there is much that this technology can contribute, not only in its traditional arena but also in the far more diverse domains which could impact significantly on our collective future as a human society. 

A flood is a temporary covering by water of land normally not covered by water. This definition includes floods from rivers, mountain torrents, Mediterranean ephemeral water courses, and floods from the sea in coastal areas and may exclude floods from the sewerage systems. Worldwide, over 65% of the large cities with more than 2.5 million inhabitants are located in coastal areas, deltas, and estuaries and almost 40% of the population of our planet is living within a 100-km-wide coastal strip. In the past, flooding disasters have struck human society all over the world and in the future they may be expected to do so again. Flooding still remains one of the most widely distributed natural hazards in the whole world. 

Climate Research (0936-577X) (1616-1572). This jonrnal evaluates, selects, and disseminates important new information abont basic and applied research devoted to all aspects of climate (present, past, and future) effects of human societies and organisms on climate and effects of climate on the ecosphere. 

Traumas caused in the human being have tremendous consequences of panic and losses that have not been attended as others problems by human society, being the response very recent. Man is used to his biorhythm and ready to live his everyday under his plan for future. 

Edmonds and Reilly conclude (p.275) "Because it is so far in the future, affecting our children s lives more directly than our own, the CO2 question has an unreal aura about it. It lacks the impact of an oil embargo. Yet the question is real and while the work we present here indicates that major man-made climate changes may not be waiting just beyond the turn of the century, we do find that CO2 concentrations will almost certainly double within 100 years the magnitude of the temperature and climate change in response to projected increases in atmospheric CO2 and the associated effects on human societies remain uncertain."... 

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