Sentences with phrase «damage to the environment»

In fact, we would do less damage to the environment by trapping it and burning it, without any economic benefit, than just letting it go into the atmosphere.

If your property uses oil for heating, a leak could cause damage to the environment.

The mining method is considered to be very damaging to the environment, as it involves leveling hundreds of square miles of land, trees and wildlife.

We focus a lot about reducing plastic because it causes the most damage to the environment but cutting down on paper is definitely useful as well.

If the world's population grows as predicted and human activity stays unchanged, science and technology may be powerless to prevent widespread poverty and irreversible damage to the environment.

The radical idea would have a profound effect on industries blamed for widespread damage to the environment like fossil fuels, mining, agriculture, chemicals and forestry.

We have to use our knowledge in such a way that it is causing only a minimum damage to the environment.

These dangerous chemicals are being sprayed on our food — every day — and cause massive collateral damage to the environment and human health.

The reason is the way the tour is operated is extremely damaging to the environment and to sustainable tourism as well.

If the growth in road traffic continues, it will cause unacceptable damage to the environment, admits the government's report on sustainable development.

We can do this by adopting lifestyles and technologies that improve happiness (or life satisfaction) while reducing human damage to the environment.

By «destructive» we refer only to the intrinsic ability of the storm to do damage to its environment due to its strength.

This is only possible if we acknowledge that the present generation and use of electricity, even tough very convenient, is very wasteful of our natural resources, besides damaging to our environment.

Gas - fired generators are relatively cheap to build, although expensive to run and damaging to the environment because of their greenhouse gas production.

Are exploiting them seriously damaging to the environment, in particular in terms of greenhouse gas intensity?

The novel technique may be useful for making compounds important in agriculture and pharmaceuticals with less damage to the environment.

Note - by - note cooking is part of a wider movement of researchers and companies that are looking to create food with the least amount of damage to the environment.

Fact is, we rarely if ever look in the mirror, to see who is causing the most damage to the environment.

That can cause serious damage to the environment and mean wasted product for the company.

Hybrid vehicles are not as damaging to the environment as regular gas guzzlers.

GREENER x design How can design help to build and make things without damage to the environment?

Bitumen, they argue, is more corrosive on the pipes, making the line more leak - prone, and more damaging to the environment when it does spill out, which it inevitably will.

They can activate hover mines, cause damage to the environment in order to induce a landslide, cause tunnels to collapse and fire missile launchers, along with other methods.

However, one can cause significant damage to the environment even without reaching a tipping point, so the threshold at which climate change becomes subjectively dangerous may well be below this.

EC causes the least damage to the environment, followed by hemp or organic cotton or wool diapers you wash at home, followed by regular cotton or artificial fabric diapers you wash at home, followed by a diaper service (all that water!)

Prosecutors on Poland's Baltic coast have opened a probe into potential damage to the environment of the Bay of Gdansk after the sewage system in this coast city malfunctioned and the refuse was dumped into the bay.

For those countries, which have suffered through wars and the Ebola epidemics, kimberlite mining could offer revenue without great damage to the environment, Shirey says.

The city is actively working to restore local damages to the environment caused my mining and has been nicknamed «The Festical City» for once drawing the National Folk Festival three years in a row.

Perhaps in some abstractly possible world there could be almost unlimited economic growth without further damage to the environment.

The PADI Scientific Diver Distinctive Specialty Course is designed to train and inspire divers of all levels to help reduce damage to the environment while collecting data to support scientific research.

Each bag - in - box packaging system removes 24 one - liter bottles from the waste stream and features superior product evacuation, saving suppliers money and damage to our environment upon disposal into landfills.

Plastic straws, like all plastic items, are incredibly damaging to the environment with a single straw taking 500 years to decompose.

Tyson is a company that has caused it or repairable damage to the environment, to peoples lives and the peoples health, you have to wonder about their motives in supporting this, profits profits profits.

From the paint to the furniture and from the carpeting to the fabrics used, everything can be chosen to minimize damage to the environment.

But if Gove's move really does suggests a red - line policy on fishing, there will be terrible damage to the environment and Britain's fishing industry.

Former Transport Minister, Stephen Byers, has called for immediate action on global warming to stave off irredeemable damage to the environment.

'' We hereby urge all indigenes of the region to explore the concept to discourage those factors that have caused gross damage to the environment and the oil and gas sector.

Will China allow Africans to carry out such destructive damage to their environment?

But the World Wildlife Fund International says that the chapter fails to recognise that existing trade agreements encourage damage to the environment.

In other words, while the Green Revolution may have fed people, the cost was unacceptable in terms of damage to the environment through the overuse of pesticide, fertiliser and water.

In an age swamped with plastic doing untold damage to the environment, the hotel chain should get back to good old fashioned china and glass.