Sentences with phrase «done about the environmental problems»

Jan Romere, of the Swedish delegation, says that «for the Nordics, it was urgent that something be done about the environmental problems» in the region, not least because they «stand in the way of closer cooperation and trade».

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People are developing lung cancer today because they were exposed to asbestos particles in and around shipyards during World War II.26 Technology creates environmental dangers, and knowing about these dangers confronts us with problems; we must make choices that did not exist before.

You also don't have to be a parent to care about environmental issues and a host of other problems associated with Nestle which I'm not going to get into here.

«If you read their existing conditions report, it doesn't talk about the complexity of the environmental problems and it never once mentions the word Superfund site,» Ryan said.

Another one - liner that you often hear to diminish the environmental problems that CI is concerned about goes as follows: «You environmentalists care less for people than you do for some lousy species of earthworm, snail darter or furbish lousewort.»

If you doubt the political importance of environmental problems, just ask any Ivory Tower ecologist — who doesn't know or care anything about politics — to name the most environmentally ravaged countries today.

Man made disasters list what are the causes and effects of man made environmental disasters is being put together, since our recent rash of environmental Information about the types, causes, and effects of water pollution and what we can do to solve the problem.

At Minnesota's School of Environmental Studies, high school students learn about becoming an expert and solving real problems — doing in - depth, interdisciplinary research using innovative technology that results in practical applications.

Opinion polls for the past decade have consistently shown that the public would like to see something done about the global warming problem, along with many other environmental issues.

The interesting thing to me about the analysis is that it doesn't treat any of the problems confronting the food system as superior to the others — it treats the environmental problem, the supply problem and the equity problem as equally important, laying out a case that they all need to be tackled at once.

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

The Christian Right which is what the Bush aministration is all about does not believe in global warming or that the environmental problems we are now experiencing have anything to do with what humans have done — it is all simply cyclical — it is what the earth does — it is nature taking its course humans have not caused it.

SourceWatch]:»... he's not an environmental scientist and he doesn't understand the fields that he's talking about so in that case, if you have a point to make and you want to get to that point, which is: everything's fine, everybody's wrong, there is no environmental problem, you just keep making that point.

Despite this high level of knowledge and upbeat, positive association with being environmentally conscious, Millennials report they do not always put their knowledge to use because of the high cost of environmentally friendly products, as well as the seeming enormity and insurmountability of environmental problems and doubts about whether they can really make a difference, Generate Insight said.

Viewed as the Prince of Darkness by climate - protection activists, Morano in his new book describes how he is in fact a real environmentalist and who, as almost every skeptic does, truly cares about the real environmental problems we face.

Do not make arguments about a subject you obviously do not know very much about, you can not look at an environmental problem with a political viewpoint, that is absolutely ridiculouDo not make arguments about a subject you obviously do not know very much about, you can not look at an environmental problem with a political viewpoint, that is absolutely ridiculoudo not know very much about, you can not look at an environmental problem with a political viewpoint, that is absolutely ridiculous.

Yet, despite the scientific community's warnings of the imminent dangers of global warming, politicians world - wide have failed to agree on what to do about this potentially devastating environmental problem.

Any fruitful discussion of what to do about climate change — however serious a problem it turns out to be — must first recognise that it is this background of degraded political aspirations that has provided the ground on which environmental politics has been able to flourish and onto which the science of climate change, resource use, and biodiversity has been superimposed.

Without bringing dietary issues to the forefront of conversations about environmental issues, then we, as a global population, don't stand a chance of solving the enormously terrifying problem of climate change.

Apple Staying Silent About Suppliers And Pollution Problems Financial Times writes, «Although Apple does not directly manufacture anything itself and does not disclose, with very few exceptions, the names of its suppliers, the Chinese environmental groups say they used public information and court documents to form a list of more than 20 Apple suppliers with environmental violations to their name.

This vice president, who did not want his name to appear in print, was deeply concerned about coal's future and expressed frustration with environmental attacks on coal, suggesting that it was all a problem of perception: «People don't like coal because it's black,» he told me.

Pope Francis and the ecomodernists both recognize that what is needed is not merely to amass information about environmental problems, nor to make empty commitments to «emissions targets,» nor simply to talk about how the world's wealthiest should do more to help the world's poorest.

«If the seller has environmental problems and you don't find out about it early, that will stall the deal,» Cosenza says.