Sentences with phrase «destroy vast areas»

According to critics the dam will destroy vast areas of pristine rainforest, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and relocate 12,000 people.

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As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

Unless that technological, industrial establishment is radically controlled — thereby effecting a transformation of vast areas of our political, economic and social life — the culture has a very good chance of destroying itself through increasingly inadequate supplies, through endless conflicts for those ever scantier materials, and through the systems of control and authority necessary to cope with each of these dangers.

The overriding factor in all of this is a government which has a blind obsession with destroying any form of localised, organised support, and has effectively binned a vast amount of imaginative, engaging and challenging work in this area, at significant cost to the taxpayer.

These levels (also known as Ground Assault) see you running around a vast area destroying enemy bases so you can construct your own buildings by using Studs.

Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction.»

Re # 10: It's not the mirrors as mirrors, it's the idea of destroying the natural ecosystems over vast areas of land in order to generate electricity — and the exercise in either cynicism or sheer obliviousness that is required to call the result «green power».

That means there are countless undiscovered human burial areas, petroglyphs, medicine wheels, sacred sites and effigies that could be destroyed along the vast length of the pipeline route, without anyone ever knowing.