Sentences with phrase «destructive practice»

He helped lead the successful effort to ban the environmentally destructive practice of drilling for gas known as «fracking,» and is a leader in the fight against gun violence.

When they act in unsustainable ways, this is often because their traditional systems have been disrupted and they can survive only by destructive practices.

But blanket bans on destructive practices often don't work, and earlier this year the people of Bhutan rebelled — at the ballot booth.

The IPCC findings provide a mandate to halt environmentally destructive practices often promoted in the name of development as such practice will increase the vulnerability of communities in the global South to the impacts of climate change.

Oil palm cultivation for biodiesel has recently been criticized because of destructive practices such as monocrop plantings, cultivation on unsuitable land leading to ecological deterioration, rapacious cutting or burning of virgin forests, and other practices that release significant amounts of heat - trapping gases.

Become aware of entrenched values and assumptions that reinforce destructive practices and unhealthy systems.

Messages demanding action from tens of thousands of people just like you have helped the Center influence decision makers, stop destructive practices that destroy our wild lands, and win protections for endangered species like the orca and northern goshawk.

Just last week, Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, announced that a Marine Conservation Order (MCO) will be put before Scottish parliament setting out conservation measures that include banning the highly destructive practice of scallop dredging within the South Arran Marine Protected Area and other west coast MPAs.

At the least, experts believe, it will delay the project, and perhaps bring some more attention to how destructive the practice of extracting oil from tar sands is.

Deferred sales charges are one of the fund industry's most destructive practices.

Some experts argue that countries are doing the same thing, allowing destructive practices to go forward now in order to set a high level of emissions that it will be easy to profit from.

One especially destructive practice is the annual burning of grass and brush in the west and in the central highlands of the island, where people raise cattle.

Additionally, ornamental fishing is often the primary source of income for people who would otherwise be driven to more destructive practices for sustenance.

Piece was created to raise awareness about a new species of Orangutan discovered in Sumatra, while highlighting destructive practices of palm oil farming affecting the region.

The move followed intensifying pressure from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, which had exposed destructive practices starting with a 2010 report, «Pulping the Planet.»

The radically destructive practice of mountaintop removal, which has been called «strip mining on steroids,» helps to drive global warming, plunders Appalachian ecosystems and communities, and robs the future for short - term profit and political expedience.

So it is with socio - environmentally destructive practices like continued rampant burning of and reliance upon fossil fuels (or industrialized monoculture farming, or industrial fishing, or any number of things)-- importantly, it's not the fossil fuels itself which are the problem here, rather it's the scale of the damage.

Special rules in coal country and tacit cooperation from some environmentalists has allowed mountaintop removal and other destructive practices to proceed

It is a decision and a commitment to separate oneself from destructive practices, to walk righteously with the creator, and do what is best, as a servant, for my people.

-- Proliferation, due to the current impunity, of destructive practices such as illegal mining and slash - and - burn agriculture within protected areas and environmentally sensitive areas.

Bring to light entrenched values and assumptions that reinforce destructive practices and unhealthy systems.

Last month, 2015 Goldman Prize winner Howard Wood celebrated a victory when Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, announced that a Marine Conservation Order (MCO) has been put before Scottish parliament setting out conservation measures that include banning the highly destructive practice of scallop dredging within the South Arran Marine Protected Area and other west coast MPAs.

Two of the most environmentally destructive practices on the planet, palm oil plantations and tar sands exploitation, in one country in exchange for an unlikely sustainable future.

Yes, it's true that many major banks invest in companies that engage in the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, whereby the tops of mountains are removed by explosives to expose thin seams of recoverable coal.

Throughout our career, you'll develop both productive and destructive practices.

The more you can avoid these destructive practices, the better poised you'll be for clear, long - term gains.

To members of the UN General Assembly: As concerned global citizens, we call on you immediately to implement and enforce your obligations to the UN resolutions on fishing and work to ban the destructive practice of deep - sea bottom - fishing.

He helped lead the successful effort to ban the environmentally destructive practice of drilling for gas known as «fracking.»

The case arose as an outgrowth of the Northwest Forest Plan, a 1994 deal that allows logging on federal lands but reduces some of the industry's destructive practices.

They argue that lax regulations, widespread corruption and the palm oil industry's poor environmental record could result in these companies repeating the destructive practices seen over the past two decades in Southeast Asia.

But in others, there aren't enough laws or enforcers to prevent disturbing, destructive practices, such as fishing with explosives or cyanide.

Spain, France and Portugal take almost 90 percent of the EU's deep - sea catch (by weight), but only France and Spain focus on the destructive practice of bottom trawling.

These findings suggest that the emerging promise of iPS cells could have a powerfully transformative effect on the stem cell debate, weakening the case for public funding not because people's views about the human embryo have changed, but because the case that embryo - destructive practices are simply unnecessary for the research — and therefore that the debate itself is unnecessary — may turn out to be persuasive.

Every purchase is a vote, and by investing in environmentally - friendly palm oil, you're voting to end an ugly, destructive practice.

«It is a destructive practice that has the undeniable effect of lowering expectations and opportunities for students who have already fallen behind.»

Especially not while those at the top are making millions upon billions from this destructive practice.

Fortunately, a resistance organization know as AVALANCHE, has vowed to put an end to Shinra's destructive practices... More

Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, this ambitious exhibition focuses on Metzger's auto - creative work — the alter ego of his better - known auto - destructive practice.

It's time to end this destructive practice, and Appalachian residents descended upon Washington, D.C., this week to demand action.

These amazing activists have worked tirelessly for years to end this destructive practice which has laid waste to their communities, their land, and their air and water.

Fourth, the mining of coal — particularly the destructive practice known as «mountaintop removal» — is inflicting permenant scars on the landscape of states such as West Virginia.

On September 27 we joined in the spirited Appalachia Rising protest in Washington, D.C., calling for an end to the destructive practice of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Teri and many others took to the stage to call upon the Obama Administration to stop this destructive practice that destroys communities and entire ecosystems in Applachia.

There is no moral, ethical, scientific, or economic justification for choosing dirty, wasteful, destructive practices over cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable practices.