They also include further despoliation of Federal lands with ugly and bird and bat - killing windmills and solar installations that are likely to be abandoned when the Federal subsidies end and the coercion is relaxed. (carlineconomics.com)
But the challenge of cleaning up vivid environmental despoliation like untreated sewage and litter is far different than the challenge of building public support to move rapidly away from the unfettered burning of abundant fossil fuels providing more than 80 percent of the world's energy. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society. (religion-online.org)