The tax package would provide a substantial incentive to people to use more environmentally polluting modes of transport... International studies clearly demonstrate that taxes on fuel should be increased... and the biggest increase ought to apply to diesel fuel because, at least in urban areas, it has the most
damaging effect on human health.
Not exact matches
Aside from possible
effects on human health, cyanide fishing inflicts
damage on the coral reefs where it is employed, as the poison kills the reefs and many of the life - forms that rely
on them
«The introduction of mitochondria into
damaged cells has beneficial
effects on the
health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in
humans.»
The potential risks around sulfate aerosol solar geoengineering include alteration of regional precipitation patterns, its
effects on human health, and the potential
damage to Earth's ozone layer by increased stratospheric sulfate particles.
Other responses to this open - ended question included
damage to plants, animals and the landscape (12 % of those asked) and
effects on human health and local infrastructure (6 % of those asked).
Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «
health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate
health effects, have jumped
on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the
human collateral
damage.
SCC is effectively an estimate of the direct
effects of carbon emissions
on the economy, and takes into consideration such factors as net agricultural productivity loss,
human health effects, property
damages from sea level rise, and changes in ecosystem services.
That's going to have one of the most important ramifications will be improvements in
human health and we shouldn't overlook the very
damaging effects of air pollution from coal and motor use is having
on agricultural production in south Asia as well.
Mercury's
damaging effect on human and environmental
health has been documented for years.
The primary environmental objective of a tax
on carbon is to set a price that reflects the «real» costs such emissions impose — accounting for the
damages that are expected to arise from global warming, including
effects on agricultural productivity and
human health, coastal inundation, and other changes.
This technical document underlines, through about 40 indicators, the consequences of observed and projected climatic changes, including an increased risk of floods and droughts, losses of biodiversity (marine, freshwater and terrestrial), adverse
effects on human health, and
damage to economic sectors.
Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is
on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term
damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing
human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.