Sentences with phrase «by environmental collapse»

It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

Not exact matches

It climaxed in an expectation of final judgment that can not be identified with our fears of an end brought about by atomic war or environmental collapse.

The focus on climate change and other environmental issues by the Tories and other mainstream parties hasn't caused Green Party support to collapse.

A recent example was the series of tremors of magnitudes 2.01 - 2.55 that occurred in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, three days before the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam owned by Samarco, resulting in the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history.

Eradicate the predators and we face what one expert calls ecological meltdown: a cascade of extinctions and environmental collapse — a world, as Quammen puts it, overrun by a «pestilence of nibblers, cropping the vegetation down to stubs.»

Dennis and Kemp's model indicates that any or all of the suspected environmental factors, alone or in combination, could lead to hive collapse by destabilizing a hive's adult bee population.

They aim to improve the wellbeing of people by guiding sustainable development practices to help avoid social and environmental collapse.

But there are many other past societies that resolved their environmental problems in unpleasant ways — not of their choice — by widespread depopulation or collapse of central government has happened to the Anasazi, the Maya and the Easter Islanders.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storEnvironmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storenvironmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

Could our society — one obsessed with products, satire, social media, and environmental collapse — be interpreted by future beings as something completely different from our current reality?

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

The exhibition revolves around the recent environmental tragedy caused by the collapse of two dams in the town of Mariana, in Minas Gerais, Brazil that made headlines across the world.

Both were newly attentive to the modalities by which artists are positioning themselves in a world increasingly prone to environmental collapse, inequality and biotechnological governance.

The environmental group is trying to force the new Iceland government to cancel the whaling quota set by the previous government, which collapsed amid the financial crisis.

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

[11] Eddie Yuen, «The Politics of Failure Have Failed: The Environmental Movement and Catastrophism,» in Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, James Davis, with a foreword by Doug Henwood.

This may not happen for fifty or a hundred years; by which time global environmental collapse will be inevitable.

Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research environmental research organization.

The Report identified 19 major environmental tipping points that are at risk of being triggered by processes linked to climate change, including higher releases of methane, and collapse of key Arctic fisheries.