Sentences with phrase «even environmentalists»

Even environmentalists have begun to grumble about the solar boom, which sucks up half of Germany's funding for renewables but provides just 20 percent of green power.

Even environmentalists aren't all that crazy about windpower.

Economists and even environmentalists are loath to condemn developing countries for buying secondhand equipment and vehicles to support their growing economies.

That this should make the so - called environmentalists so angry, makes you wonder if they are even environmentalists at all...

Meanwhile, mounting evidence of unparalleled ecological destruction in lands formerly under communist rule has finally begun to persuade even some environmentalists that too much government is as bad for nature as it is harmful to man.3

Even environmentalists have trouble accepting the implications of climate change, something I learned giving talks on college campuses.

While a remarkeable number of people, including IPCC scientists and even some environmentalists even appear easily fooled, the atmosphere and earth systems certainly will not be!

At least 15, however, are threatened with extinction and many more are on the decline, thanks in part to a hunting ban that is so poorly enforced even environmentalists are working to overturn it.

Even some environmentalists have begun to embrace nuclear power, because of its potential to reduce the greenhouse emissions that are blamed for global warming.

The City government pleads poverty, and even environmentalist Gord Perks says to Eye Weekly: «I would certainly support this if it's not interfering with competing priorities.»

Not exact matches

In addition to compromising the indigenous areas (Rio Paru D'Este and Waiãpi) that fall within its borders, environmentalists are also fearful of the potential for deforestation, destruction and even the potential of a gold rush that could result from this official order, as well as the additional pressure on social problems.

The storied climb was never a walk in the park, but it's become an even greater source of angst for climbers and environmentalists in recent years.

Just like there have been conflicts on the democrats side with gay rights groups, environmentalist and even with the African American community because after four years Obama had left them with no noticeable change.

At the moment it seems that a Democratic administration in Washington that includes enlightened environmentalists in key places will not be able to deliver at Kyoto even what was proposed by the Bush administration at Rio.

But even feminists and environmentalists (and I consider myself to be in both camps) must face the ways that reproductive technologies have assumed and contribute to a contingent life ethic.

Although some Christ - followers find it increasingly difficult to ignore the environmental impact of their lifestyles and are beginning to feel a holy stirring as they wake up to crazy weather patterns, smoggy skylines and disappearing forests, others are uncomfortable with «environmentalists» and even less comfortable with their «agenda.»

A man who stands up for a bit of Britain's precious greenery might be hailed as an idealistic environmentalist preserving our national heritage... right up to the point people discover he lives in the country, next to a field even.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

ALBANY — A slowdown on acid rain research, untrammeled poaching, dirtier rivers and even a poor fishing season are possible results of the state's plans to lay off up to 209 Department of Environmental Conservation employees, environmentalists warned Wednesday.

Public comment on a proposal to allow new facilities to be built in New York ended in November, and drew significant outcry from environmentalists, who connect such facilities to fracking even though state officials said the two are not related.

The proposal, however, faced heavy criticism by environmentalists — even garnering an oppositional resolution from state lawmakers in New Jersey — over its potential threat to a watershed there.

When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives — and even neuroscience — to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change

But public health advocates, environmentalists and even many doctors worry that our society's overuse and misuse of antibiotics is making bacteria more resistant and thus limiting the effectiveness of these lifesaving drugs.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

Environmentalists and others have called for oil companies to capture the gas, which could be used to generate power or recover even more oil, rather than burn it off or release it into the atmosphere.

It even had an environmental impact statement at the ready to persuade environmentalists and local Papua New Guineans that the company's mining scheme would not unduly harm the ocean.

European countries and environmentalists argued for incorporation of the «precautionary approach,» which says that it may be necessary to take action even when the scientific evidence is incomplete.

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

Now, it is apparent from reading even the first few pages of The Skeptical Environmentalist that Lomborg proposes to make the case that not just environmentalists, but a considerable part of the heretofore respectable environmental - science community, have been misunderstanding the relevant concepts, misrepresenting the relevant facts, understating the uncertainties, selecting data, and failing to acknowledge errors after these have been pointed out in other words, that the scientist contributors to what he calls «the environmental litany» (namely, that environmental problems are serious and becoming, in many instances more so) have been guilty of massively violating the scientists code of conduct.

Even Jos Dings, director of a European environmentalist group called Transport & Environment, criticized the European Commission plan as doing too little in the near term.

Meanwhile, opinion in the blogosphere last night was sharply divided, even among environmentalists.

Even as industrial civilization reaches into the farthest corners of the globe to extract resources such as oil, timber and fish, environmentalists are striving to mitigate its deleterious effects on the biosphere.

Hawken has been an environmentalist since before he could even identify himself as such.

A hemp revival fueled by unified groups of farmers, doctors, nutritionists, environmentalists, and businesses gained even more momentum with the exciting discovery of the endocannabinoid system in the 1990s.

As Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it die.

To posit the argument against fracking, a highly likable Dustin Noble (John Krasinski) acts as a roving environmentalist plastering signs about the town condemning the fracking, even accepting a bribe from Global's agents and, rather than keeping quiet, using the money to buy more signs opposing the offers by Big Gas.

A recent study at the state level asked experts to rank interest groups according to political influence, and the teacher unions came out number one, outdistancing business organizations, trial lawyers, doctors, insurance companies, environmentalists, and even the state AFL - CIO affiliates.

The hybrid powertrain under the hood might not bother the environmentalists and the odd - even rule makers but the high pricing might bother your pocket.

Nevertheless, the new report is likely to fuel the sometimes vitriolic debate between environmentalists who see free - roaming domestic cats as an invasive species — superpredators whose numbers are growing globally even as the songbirds and many other animals the cats prey on are in decline — and animal welfare advocates who are appalled by the millions of unwanted cats (and dogs) euthanized in animal shelters each year.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

• Even dedicated environmentalists need rewards.

In addition to the outdoor sculptural works (which apparently remain accessible even in winter) 2016 also saw the start of the Verbier 3 - D Glacier Project, four years of interplay between artists, locals and environmentalists looking at the challenges of climate change and chronicling its impact on the local environment.

I can assure you that scientists are NOT allied with environmental extremists, or even regular environmentalists (though secretly they may be using compact fluorescent bulbs).

It's even more ironic that one of the reasons why the McCain - Lieberman bill faltered was because the romantics within the Environmentalist movement didn't want to support the Nuclear Industry.

But even the liberal conservationists and environmentalist won't like what we come up with.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

Trailing Lula was a chorus of jeers from world environmentalists and civic groups, such as Conservation International, the Brazilian labor organization CUT, and even the United Nations Environment Program.

On the environmentalist side, I would urge the whaling nations to act more like hunters, who have always been strong conservationists, and even if they kill animals, have professed a love for animals and spent the money on saving land and species to prove it.

Ironically, U.S. environmentalists have been a major reason more supercritical coal plants haven't been used in the United States, even taking credit for killing state - of - the - art new coal construction in the past decade.

Even if all environmentalists walked the walk would that be enough for you?