Sentences with phrase «communities losing their land»
There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.
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But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.
In sprawling suburbia, these large swaths of land could house densely - packed residential developments, shops, community centers, libraries, schools, and all sorts of other buildings that could help rebuild a long - lost sense of community.
A rendering by Richard Chenoweth of «Keys Cottages» that are being designed by the Florida Keys Community Land Trust to house people who lost their homes during Hurricane Irma.
Anambra State government has said that communities engaging in clashes over landed properties stand the risk of losing them to the state government.
At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»
The mismatched trio land in Ocean View with no more than a PO Box number to guide them in their investigation, but no sooner have they checked into their hotel than Jeff abandons the job to track down a long lost love interest who lives in the beach community.
Parvin continued: «It pains me that when I go back, I will tell my people that wealthy governments just talked about which lands will be lost, communities displaced, cultures destroyed and which lives are less important.»
Without any major highways or county thoroughfares in the area, the secluded communities within the Lost Coast are only accessible by land via small mountain roads.
However, if Capcom and the MvC community are going to make a move they'd better do it soon, because fans and players are starting to look past the old guard to the shiny new land of Dragonball, including one name MvC can't afford to lose: Justin Wong.
What we do now can save species, ecosystems, arable land, and communities that will otherwise be lost to sea - level rise.
For example, science can identify how much monetary loss might occur if tropical cyclones grow more intense or heat waves more frequent, or identify the land that might be lost in coastal communities for various levels of higher seas.
When they looked at a broader land classification called «urban / community» that encompasses both urban areas and other areas of less - dense human habitation, they found that those regions lost a collective total of 0.7 percent.
Locally, communities not only lose access to water and land resources, but are subjected to the environmental degradation that comes along with monocrop cultivation, including soil and water contamination from pesticide pollution and soil erosion.
But, as examined in CSPW's previous post, Governor Bill Walker and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — a state that has first - hand experience with oil spills — complain that the President is not doing enough to fill the Trans - Alaska Pipeline with oil, even as they work to relocate indigenous communities whose lands are being lost to ice melt and erosion.
This lack of legally recognized rights leaves communities vulnerable to losing their land to settlers, cattle ranchers, illegal loggers, or companies — and it leaves forests vulnerable to being cut down.
If HIV were to enter these communities, the world's ancient cultures and customs, and custodians of lands, would be lost forever.
«If HIV were to enter these communities, the world's ancient cultures and customs, and custodians of lands, would be lost forever,» he said.
Our community has lost a trailblazer for our rights, especially when it comes to land rights and health care.
And you said that without land and community at your spiritual centre, every Aboriginal person in Australia will be lost.