Sentences with phrase «ecological catastrophe»

What's the evidence for all this talk of ecological catastrophe and biodiversity impacts?

Yet if humanity is to avoid ecological catastrophe, it must find a way to wean itself off fossil fuels.

Or, it could be an influential scientist who states about the upcoming ecological catastrophe and plays havoc in the society.

Marine biologists fear an impending ecological catastrophe unless animals evolve to take up calcium more efficiently.

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

I hope you'll read and disseminate Jim Gorman's story on the new Science paper pointing to a potential ecological catastrophe in North America should a potent chytrid fungus that attacks salamanders arrive on these shores.

These processes are mysterious, inscrutable, so much so that the more one learns about them, the more one becomes reluctant to step on an ant or swat a fly for fear that some dire ecological catastrophe will ensue.

The application of the precautionary principle in response to fears about ecological catastrophe is not the result of politically - neutral, objective calculation.

It is not surprising that in a world ruled by such a theory, nature continues to be degraded and we head toward ecological catastrophes.

Opening of the Seventh Seal and Forthcoming Ecological Catastrophe 24 8.

This is in contrast with a system that inherently generates a race to the bottom and leads toward massive ecological catastrophes while working against efforts to solve the problems it generates.

Re-wilding islands and even continents could prove an effective method for reversing ecological catastrophe

Likewise, it claimed that the scuttling of the Brent Spar would be a marine ecological catastrophe.

That is, toads are widely believed to kill many native animals, and so cause a major ecological catastrophe in the areas they invade.

The toads were blamed for widespread ecological catastrophe, for killing off many of the islander's chickens, and even for lethally poisoning a couple of local people.

Although he's aware of the enormity of the contemporary ecological catastrophe, he does not turn it into the central theme of his work, but integrates it in the many issues that he is concerned about.

The possibility of ecological catastrophe injects moral purpose back into public life, in spite of a collapse in trust.

Under current economic and social trends, the world is on a path to unprecedented ecological catastrophes.

On a Pew Charitable Trusts website, he makes the reckless claim that applications of agricultural biotechnology «promise ecological catastrophe.»

According to Lynas, Rockström and his associates — referred to by Lynas as the «planetary boundaries experts group» — believe that they have identified nine fundamental measures of the planet's ecological health that human development must not interfere with, if ecological catastrophe is to be avoided.

In fact, in recent years it has become difficult to find fictional presentations of the near future that do not feature decaying cities, a ruthless ruling class, economic collapse, and impending ecological catastrophe.

Beginning, excerpted:» Ice - capped roof of world turns to desert «Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up

The exhibition has an interactive computer game called «Battle for the Planet», which seems say, we may heading for a global ecological catastrophe, but hey kids, global warming can still be fun!

Economism is now leading to both social and ecological catastrophes of global proportions.

That means that it will hasten the ecological catastrophes that lie in wait.

Almost two decades after the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome scenario that predicted ecological catastrophe, the WorldWatch Institute has picked up the mantle of leadership in the discredited field of what I....

The successes of science and technology have kept alive — despite wars, racism, overpopulation, ecological catastrophe, homelessness, incest and domestic violence — the belief that one day we will get things right.

There are risks related to ecological catastrophes (the desertification, the depletion of the Ozone layer, the deforestation, the Greenhouse effect).

Robert Heilbroner has recently predicted such a collapse, largely as a result of ecological catastrophe.

Such waste is a sick parody of true sacrifice and a harbinger of ecological catastrophe.

We have grown used to the threats of nuclear war, the population explosion, and ecological catastrophe.

The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.

I think it would be very bad to wait for an ecological catastrophe as a trigger.

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

«We have to stop this ecological catastrophe, or Glacier's native fishes will be lost for future generations.»

But the epic pace of China's development could spawn an ecological catastrophe of a different order.

Even the big threats — nuclear warfare or an ecological catastrophe, perhaps following from climate change — aren't existential in the sense that they would wipe us out entirely.

And in the 20th century the American Dust Bowl, an ecological catastrophe precipitated by drought and compounded by bad land - management policies, displaced 3.5 million people from the Midwest.

To help forestall this ecological catastrophe a variety of sustainable - seafood certification schemes have emerged.