Sentences with phrase «if environmentalists»

It would be kind of ironic if environmentalists succeeded in blocking our use of coal to generate electricity and then China and Asia started using more of our coal...

We can only build a coalition with the power to curb climate disruption if environmentalists are fighting for economic and racial justice as hard as they are against fossil fuels, and if unions are fighting as hard for an immediate transition to a worker - friendly clean energy economy as they are to protect their members.

Having said that, if we environmentalists do our job right we will start to see people changing their ways — not because they have had a sudden moral epiphany — but because there is simply a better way of doing things.

I wonder if environmentalists are really as pathetic and perpetually grumpy as they always sound, or if that's just some sort of kabuki political theater?

If environmentalists were serious about clean power, they would support hydroelectric, geothermal and nuclear power.

Loggers, mislead by industry, contended that they couldn't make a living if environmentalists and government regulators restricted their ability to log old growth forest.

To deal with this, utilities can adopt a regime of rolling blackouts during periods of peak demand — a common feature of Third World power systems, and a feature of the First World if environmentalists have their way.

If we environmentalists were honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that several decades of heroic efforts to curb carbon emissions have yielded little progress.

If environmentalists seek an excuse for their failure to see their preferred policies enacted, they'll have to find a better one than the funds going to their opponents.

With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet by these means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.

Even if all environmentalists were socialists and secularists and insufferable and partisan to the core, it would not alter the reality of the Earth's temperature.

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

But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the man - made destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.

In the first paragraph of my critique, I note that Lomborg spends most of his energy chapter attacking a view that few if any environmentalists hold namely, that the world is running out of energy.

If the environmentalists are wrong we end up with cleaner air and water anyway.

If an environmentalist can not grasp this simple truth, how can anyone expect them to have any understanding whatsoever?

Even if every environmentalist and climate campaigner agreed with me that we need a radical reappraisal of our present «growth at all costs» orthodoxy (hint: they don't), that still wouldn't mean the only alternative to business - as - usual is some anarcho - primitivist dystopia.

Not exact matches

But good lord, if corporate donations are going to be clawed back over something as unimportant as an honourary doctorate to an unpopular environmentalist, what will happen when something really serious happens?

I think that if you read the tea leaves here, the president has kicked this argument up and away from the jobs argument and put it down on the carbon side of the discussion, and that is probably ultimately favourable to environmentalists.

If business is to help solve the world's biggest environmental problems, and do so profitably, corporate executives, environmentalists, and politicians will need to innovate and collaborate, think big and act boldly.

If this wasn't enough to get environmentalist in an uproar the government then proposed changes to the income tax act that would require that that charities disclose foreign sources of funds and demonstrate that the organization satisfied the 10 per cent rule for political activities.

But if Climategate has taught us anything, it is that the power of the environmentalist argument rests entirely on its intellectual integrity.

The decision came just days after a spill on TransCanada's existing Keystone line in South Dakota on Thursday sparked new attacks by environmentalists who pointed to the event as something the state could expect if the project is approved.

If a politician was a noted environmentalist then you wouldn't think twice about being ent.itled to scrutinize those beliefs, so what gives the religious the impression that a politician's religious beliefs are somehow off limits?

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

First, committed environmentalists, or those at least deeply attracted to it, who view Christianity with skepticism; people who might become more open to Christianity if they come to believe that God is green.

Environmentalists hold that if we fail to experience deeply our own belongingness to the natural world we will not sufficiently care for it.

If it's the former, can you explain to us how being a Christian led you to also being an environmentalist?

I don't know if he thinks of himself as an environmentalist, although I suspect not.

Especially looking for fellow organic food / farming / environmentalist posters, if they're out there, I'll be looking!

If you're a staunch environmentalist you might say that cloth are best, although new information shows that biodegradable disposables may be the greenest option.

With this positive discipline technique, I have to get off my butt, zip my lips and lead her by the hand (or pick her up and take her if she pulls the tried and true environmentalist protest limp drop) to her room and close the door.

Lawyer Rudolf Amenga - Etego, who is also an environmentalist, has indicated to Starr News through his spokesperson, Gilbert Atanga, that he would use his MP Common Fund to strengthen needy constituents through education, health, water and sanitation programmes among other interventions if voted as MP for the area in this year's general elections.

«If people starve because of biofuels, Ruth Kelly and her peers will have killed them,» wrote environmentalist George Monbiot in The Guardian.

It's been a week since more than a dozen residents marched to the podium at a Southold Town Board meeting and urged members to consider banning plastic bags, which environmentalists warn can have serious effects on local wildlife if improperly disposed of.

Mike Fricchione, a spokesman for environmentalist Adrienne Esposito, said, «It doesn't matter if it's Senft or Croci on the ballot.

When he talked about his idea with environmentalists, ecologists, aboriginal groups and Boy Scout troops, every group asked the same question: What if one of your carp got loose in Europe?

But more awareness of chemical sensitivities has many environmentalists and public health advocates wondering if the clothes and bedding children are exposed to could be impacting their health negatively.

Professor Rob Heinsohn, also from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society, said groups such as foresters, environmentalists and members of the public would be severely affected if the birds became extinct.

If you're the gambling type, you'd be better off putting your money on Ehrlich and Schneider in this latest spat between the two Stanford University environmentalists and the University of Maryland professor of business administration.

The International Chamber of Shipping did not comment for this story, but in its 2013 annual report, it said it was «concerned that efforts by certain governments (and environmentalist NGOs) to treat the Arctic as if it is fundamentally different to any other sea area in which special dangers might apply may have the unwelcome effect of delaying the code's adoption.»

But if everyone loves green chemistry — scientists, environmentalists, politicians, corporate leaders — then why hasn't it been more successful?

So do nt be surprised if See you in court becomes the environmentalists new rallying cry.

But environmentalists have urged for the monument to remain untouched, noting that it is among the most likely monuments to be opened to oil and gas production if its protections are eliminated.

Yet environmentalists behave as if the opposite were true: every time a change occurs that pushes a species nearer to extinction there is an outcry.

Moore, who brands himself the «sensible environmentalist» said: «If Greenpeace admits that there is one good GM crop, then they would have to admit there might be other good GM crops and then they would be reduced to a rational discussion of the subject like the rest of us mere mortals.»

Very chill, laid back... Artist, self - employed - private chef / caterer, environmentalist, wine enthusiast... What you see is what you get, so if brutal honesty isn't something you're looking for, then step aside... I'm very picky because I plan on spending...

If you're not on the wavelength of Darren Aronofsky's particular artistic / environmentalist / religious anxieties, there's not much to recommend in this movie at all.

Heady questions that are touched upon in this allegory of our era's heated struggle between religion vs. science that so dominates many of our medical and scientific research that could potentially save humanity (it's not a coincidence that the Icarus expeditions have scientists, environmentalists and psychologists), if not for the fact that some of their methods are deemed morally reprehensible by people with devout beliefs.

But if California's public sector unions were as committed to that pro-growth agenda as they are to their current agenda which is bankrupting California's cities and counties at the same time as it obsesses over race, gender, and environmentalist extremism, they could probably get all of it done.