Sentences with phrase «caused ecological disasters»
«Overuse of groundwaters in Libya has already caused ecological disasters,» says Tony Allen from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who is a specialist on Middle East water.
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He argues that overpopulation and industrialization are causing an ecological disaster and that democracy isn't up to the challenge, an authoritarian government must be imposed to save us from ourselves.
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Some researchers have proposed that Toba's eruption was big enough to cause a reverse greenhouse effect that cooled Earth for decades, leading to ecological disaster and widespread food shortages that only a few small communities were able to survive.
Nolan was influenced by the real - life ecological disaster of the Dust Bowl in 1930s North America, when the rich top soil essential to farming dried out and blew away, desolating vast areas and causing famine and mass human displacement — a situation that could yet happen again with the severe, ongoing US drought in the US.
Drought and water scarcity are considered to be the most far - reaching of all natural disasters, causing short and long - term economic and ecological losses as well as significant secondary and tertiary impacts.
«Deepwater Horizon» — Leave it to Peter Berg to take the worst ecological disaster in history caused by a greedy and careless U.S. conglomerate into a film about how much «America Rocks!»
But Michael Makarian, president of the New York - based Fund for Animals, said the park service was causing an «ecological disaster» with its poisoning campaign.
Wouldn't it be ironic if, in an attempt to thwart ecological disaster from global warming, we in fact cause a disaster?
There are so many examples of ecological disasters caused by well - intentioned experiments like this.
From the ubiquity of assertions one sees that it is the poor and over-population that is causing the disaster, I suspect that the Right intend to make the global poor pay for the ecological collapse, while continuing their reedy excessive consumption as long as possible.