Sentences with phrase «change advocates tend»

The climate change advocates tend to lose because they overreach and are ill - prepared for strong opposition.

As David Wojick points out, climate change advocates tend to lose the debates, consequently their tack these days is to flee from public debate and complain that debates are unfair or don't prove anything.

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I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

«When people communicate as advocates, they tend to use more certainty in their language than may be warranted,» said Vanessa Schweizer, a professor with the Department of Knowledge Integration in the Faculty of Environment at Waterloo, and who is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

As investor advocate Ken Kivenko of Canadian Fund Watch explains, funds tend to change their names when they want to be associated with what's hot, and right now ETFs are snowballing in popularity.

Given a strong commitment to action on the issue and a strong political outlook, advocates like blogger Joe Romm tend to notice and highlight each instance of dismissive media commentary or falsely balanced coverage of climate change while tending to overlook (or go without mentioning) the many other instances of coverage where consensus views on climate change are strongly asserted.

«At the moment the voices that are heard tend to be advocating for big embankments and flood defences when they should be addressing the underlying causes such as land use change.