Sentences with phrase «advocated by the environmentalists»

In an effort to curb climate change, both Britain and Canada have announced plans to stop building new conventional coal power plants, a move long - advocated by environmentalists.

The basic tool advocated by the environmentalists to achieve their ends is government intervention in the market for electric power generation.

The application of the so - called «precautionary principle,» advocated by the environmentalists, is — conceptually — a wrong strategy, because human civilization can not exist in a regime of the precautionary principle.

Carbon credits trading (also known as «cap and trade») as a means to help mitigate the effects of global climate change has long been advocated by environmentalists fighting one of the most intransigent environmental challenges of the...

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Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

This is particularly strange since it has so often been assumed, both by advocates of Eastern (South and East Asian) perspectives and by environmentalists and philosophers in the West, that Eastern religions are much more resourceful for ecological sensitivity than are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Conferences during the early days of the environmental movement were often punctuated by sharp exchanges between environmentalists and the advocates of justice for the poor.

Calls by kangaroo industry advocates and environmentalists to get more kangaroo meat on the plates of Australians ignore serious issues associated with the industry.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

Those were some of the questions environmentalists and food industry advocates grappled with Wednesday during a meeting of a special task force created earlier in the year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo following a move in the Legislature to halt a proposed fee in New York City.

Smartphones, cheap satellite imaging and crowdfunded enterprises have made oversight possible that was undreamt of by past transparency advocates, environmentalists and other interested parties.

Indeed, Lohr [5] suggests as much in her dissertation: «the opinions held by animal rights advocates versus the opinions held by environmentalists regarding the management of feral cats could be described as polar opposites and entrenched.»

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.

Inspired by the famous folk tune, «This Land is Your Land» written by Woody Guthrie, Underwood's series affirms his standing as an environmentalist photographer and ecological advocate.

If we allow «environmentalist» minded people to control us and set the agenda by advocating conservation and minimalist living we will only succeed in strangling outselves.

Though I disagree with the first commenter that environmentalists as somehow by nature obstructionists, advocates on all extremes of this debate will have to be ready to sacrifice their sacred cows.

Environmental Progress was intensively involved in advocating to save Millstone, publishing an open letter signed by the world's leading climate scientists and environmentalists — as well as Pulitzer Prize - winner Richard Rhodes and Harvard's Stephen Pinker — and publishing an in - depth analysis of the environmental consequences that would result from its closure.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

Do they not believe on AGW or do they believe that many policies advocated by the wealthy and influential environmentalist lobby, such as keystone and EPA regs, are standing in the way of economic growth?

Nuclear advocates have repeatedly attempted to paint their chosen technology as a victim of unreasonable bias by environmentalists.

LNS believes the CPP can be implemented in ways that maximize the gains for climate protection by constructing broad coalitions that include environmentalists, trade unions, and social justice advocates around common interest in protecting the climate and maximizing positive jobs impacts.