Sentences with phrase «called environmentalists»

Over the last half decade or so it has become increasingly difficult for so - called environmentalists to advocate replacing nuclear plants while also campaigning for action on climate change.

He also offers corporate speaking and consulting services for the energy industry to combat «formidable attacks by so - called environmentalists that can put a halt to your projects and sabotage your bottom line.»

So - called environmentalists have supported these activities by public advocacy, and politicians have given them immense amounts of money for that support.

Why is the — very real and pressing — concern about overpopulation never raised by so - called environmentalists?

Just leave it to so called environmentalists to mismanage forests for years and years through endless lawsuits and misguided legislation, burn said forests to the ground and then claim global warming did it.

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

If you add to this the evidence Roger A. Pielke, Sr. offers in his rebuttal of RC propaganda, I think one can safely and sanely declare that the AGW proponents are working with a house of cards: it looks like a great integrated, well designed structure, a consensus — especially to the so - called environmentalists and to their media and political allies — but so many of its foundational data sets (ocean temps, net ice melt, etc) don't support their model; at the very least, they don't support the hysterical, «save the planet» nuttiness that is rampant today.

Alternative energy is a joke, which doesn't take into account anything other than the fact that they burn clean as the so - called environmentalists want to believe that the only problem that exists today is global warming (nevermind the other problems exist, nevermind that mining is ruining our world as well, nevermind that cell phone towers are killing between 5 and 50 million migratory song birds every year or that dams are killing the salmon off, no none of this matters apparently).

And they have the full support of the politicians responsible for bankrupting Rockland County, now $ 140 MILLION IN DEFICIT and the so called environmentalists who want to take control of your life.

Could these so - called environmentalists, in fact, be fictitious St. Petersburg bots?

On the other hand most of those who call themselves environmentalists seem strikingly focused on far more than just the practical problems of day to day pollution mitigation.

Despite Perry's close ties to fossil fuel interests, he's probably done more for the wind energy industry than most so - called environmentalist Democrats.

So it is a surprise to meet someone who calls himself an environmentalist but who asserts that things are getting better, that the rate of human population growth is past its peak, that agriculture is sustainable and pollution is ebbing, that forests are not disappearing, that there is no wholesale destruction of plant and animal species and that even global warming is not as serious as commonly portrayed.

On the other hand, most of those who call themselves environmentalists seem strikingly focused on far more than just the practical problems of day - to - day pollution mitigation.

I thought about just doing this post as a way to laugh at how silly conservative outrage over another bit of pop culture they don't like is, especially this guy's movie review, but I just can't get over how wrong his assumptions are about what most people that call themselves environmentalists really believe and want for themselves and the environment.

(And if you call yourself an environmentalist or are even minimally concerned about green issues, you should be.)

But to think that this is the goal of everyone that would call themselves an environmentalist is preposterous.

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Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

Environmentalists have fought for years to stem Canadian oil sands production, which some call tar sands, in favor of cleaner energy.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

Environmentalists have welcomed the move but have called for a more comprehensive scheme which includes all retailers and all types of bags.

Much of what environmentalists were saying seemed to call for a redirection of energies from issues of justice to those of preserving the environment.

When James Lee tried to blow up The Discovery Channel, his reasoning that of an Environmental Extremist did you call upon all environmentalists to embrace and repudiate.

For some time now environmentalists have been calling attention to the way the growing economy is straining the limits of the environment to supply our needs.

In contrast, environmentalists who call for the developing world to return to a non-existent organic arcadia are forgetting the reality of farming in a subsistence economy.

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

A new Meat Free Monday campaign has been launched in Australia, with physicians, celebrities and environmentalists alike joining calls for Aussies to cut down on their meat intake.

Environmentalist Paul Hawken calls on the food industry, as a big part of the problem, to lead the way against climate change.

New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step into its leadership and divest from fossil fuels.

It was «called in» by Salmond, despite the objections of local planners, environmentalists and local people.

In 2006, Pittenger sent a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist, published in 1998, to his colleagues in the North Carolina Senate.

Governor Cuomo's environmental commissioner is rejecting calls by environmentalists for an independent health impact study on hydro fracking.

Democratic Platform Committee members, including Josh Fox and Bill McKibben, joined advocates and environmentalists in calling for a nationwide fracking ban to be adopted in the platform ahead of the committee's meeting in Orlando, FL today.

«I called for a ban on fracking for natural gas as the Green gubernatorial candidate in 2010 at a time when most environmentalists urged a moratorium so that the health and environmental impacts of fracking could be studied,» Hawkins wrote.

By Wednesday morning, environmentalists were calling for more study on fracking, and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, fresh off a record performance for his party, all but dared the governor to lift the moratorium.

Actor and environmentalist Mark Ruffalo called her actions «disgusting» on Twitter.

As he was courting environmentalists in the New York primary, Vermont Senator Senator called Indian Point a «catastrophe waiting to happen» because of the bolts and other issues.

Greenberg calls fracking a «lose - lose» situation for the governor, because whichever decision he ultimately makes, he risks angering either the powerful gas drilling industry, or environmentalists who are part of the Democratic base.

The fracking ban demand convinced the many environmentalists to support a ban rather than their positions at that time of promoting fracked gas as the «bridge fuel» to renewable energy or calling for a moratorium while fracking was studied.

Environmentalists, elected officials and newspaper editorial boards across the state called the loan into question since clean water funds are typically used to pay for sewer repair projects.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner is rejecting calls by environmentalists for an independent health impact study on hydrofracking.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Environmentalists and Onondaga Nation members are calling on Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney to slow down the environmental review for a new amphitheater on Onondaga Lake.

Water once flowed freely from the lake to the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south, creating the Everglades, the extraordinary 50 - mile - wide swath of marshes that author and environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas memorably called a «river of grass.»

She described how in Mexico (where she served as embassy public affairs officer) environmentalists created what she called «an opening in civil society» that expanded when a devastating earthquake hit their country in 1985.

Many, although not all, environmentalists called the agreement a disaster; speaking to a crowd of journalists shortly after the announcement, Lumumba Stanislaus Di - Aping, chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing countries, called the deal a «gross violation» of the UN process that would do little to curb global warming.

As a result, a coalition of Chinese scientists and environmentalists signed a petition this May calling for a halt to «overdevelopment» of hydropower in the Yangtze River Basin.

In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.»

This probably wasn't what the environmentalists had in mind when they called for more trade with native communities in forest products.

The latest finds have prompted environmentalists in Scotland to call for a halt to the reprocessing of nuclear fuel at Dounreay while the site is cleaned up.

Over the past two decades, environmentalists have refined a methodology that is sometimes called true - cost accounting.