Sentences with phrase «despoliation of»

They also include further despoliation of Federal lands with ugly and bird and bat - killing windmills and solar installations that are likely to be abandoned when the Federal subsidies end and the coercion is relaxed.

What would be better that not buying it would be picking out the display ads (especially those near op ed) and writing en masse to them explaining that we mean to discourage everyone we know from supporting their business while they are supporting The Australian, and encouraging a viral marketing campaign against them as they are contributing to the despoliation of the planet.

And on the same day, a second team of scientists emphasised the same conclusion: work with nature to confront climate change and improve the lives of people in the developing world, put at risk by climate change driven in part by the despoliation of the forests and the degradation of the land.

For me the pipeline, in isolation, is not in the national interest if we have any interest in not contributing, through our driving habits, to the despoliation of far - flung parts of the planet.

A critique of all that the plantation stands for, «Barrier Island» refers to the once wanton despoliation of natural resources and the slave labor involved.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Born by Water and Spirit, Ninth and Washington Avenue (2009) in A Despoliation of Water From the Housatonic to Monongahela River (1930 - 2013), 2013.

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

If it can not, no argument of expedience can justify the despoliation of an adjusted ecosystem and the creation of a desert for posterity.

«Our administration has resolved to seize the gauntlet by taking a courageous step to halt the relentless despoliation of our common heritage by some mindless persons.

In spite of its innumerable positive contributions, modern science has played its part in the creation of phenomena that threaten the planet with extinction: the despoliation of the non-human natural world and the invention of weapons capable of omnicide.

The scientist Lynn White, for example, has stressed the connection of this idea to the kind of values that have led to our despoliation of the environment.

From Zen we learn that if Christ's suffering is indeed to be found in the despoliation of the earth, then his suffering, too, is part of our true selves.

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Moreover, men may find it easier than women to travel in regions of extreme environmental despoliation.

The poem begins by describing the despoliation and destruction of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

Cuomo decided to prohibit fracking in the state a month after his re-election in 2014, but had previously been criticized by backers of the process, who accused him of hindering economic development, as well as opponents convinced he was about to give his blessing to environmental despoliation.

Emphasis on «soft engineering» For instance, the task force suggests adding specific text to the state's Tidal Wetlands Act stating: «It is declared to be the public policy of the state to preserve and protect tidal wetlands and to prevent their despoliation and destruction, giving due consideration to the occurrence of sea level rise that will result in wetlands loss and migration, and to the reasonable economic and social development of the state.»

The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.

Smithson's «Rundowns» unlocked conceptions of nature because they moved in the opposite direction — performing an act of visceral despoliation which, upon reflection, turned out to beautiful and harmless.

It became one of many cities and towns along a great river that largely turned their backs on the waterfront because of the despoliation, untreated sewage and pollution.

What's really odd about that attitude is the area in question sports little indigenous vegetation, having been previously devastated by the hand of man so it's hard to make an honest despoliation argument.

But most of the time, the lack of rules and consequences leads to despoliation, and sometimes violence.