The phrase
"ecological degradation" refers to the process of harm or damage to the natural environment. It occurs when the delicate balance of ecosystems, including plants, animals, and their habitats, is disrupted or destroyed, leading to negative impacts on biodiversity and the overall health of the planet.
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These policies advance still further in the direction that has caused such social injustice and
ecological degradation in recent decades.
Once an expansive 46 - acre network of wetlands, dunes, and a 13 - acre open freshwater lagoon, the area has suffered more than a century
of ecological degradation from agriculture, recreation, and road construction.
We might assume that those images that, to the best of our judgment, serve the interests of justice, peace, and respect for the integrity of creation reveal something of God; and that those images that serve the ideologies of injustice, violence, and
ecological degradation distort God.
Church in India, which had faithfully held on to a theology imported from a civilization responsible
for ecological degradation, has to reconsider and redefine its mission in the context of worsening ecological crisis.
As a result of deforestation, consequent erosion and a breakdown in the water cycle, crisis point was reached in 1990 when it was realised that 14000 km2 was suffering
extreme ecological degradation.
We could not choose between issues of social justice and
ecological degradation.
Local control over common resources helps to break the cycle of economic and
ecological degradation.
All these establish a connection between social justice and
ecological degradation.
Secondly poverty is also a source of
ecological degradation, and the alleviation of poverty by the poor through their struggle for justice is an ecological concerns.
Any ecological degradation has not led to a collapse in human welfare.
Ecological degradation that he says costs his nation about $ 1 billion in lost wealth per day is also partly to blame.
And that could start a «downward spiral of
ecological degradation, toward the bottom of which social safety nets collapse, while tensions and violence rise,» affecting both rich and poor, he said.
The group will «sound a warning» that business as usual will lead to
ecological degradation and economic loss, said David Miliband, one of the group's co-chairs and former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom.
By comparing historical changes in 12 bodies of water worldwide, a new study highlights the extent to which civilization's advance has led to
ecological degradation.
I am hopeful that the climate movement will continue to pick up steam, and that more and more people globally will join the massive efforts already underway to reverse current patterns of
ecological degradation.
Here and now, are there not clear, present and visible signs of
ecological degradation that are directly derived from the threat posed to human and environmental health by the gigantic scale and skyrocketing growth of absolute global human population numbers?
In a significant intervention, the Anglican Public Affairs Commission has warned concerned Christians that remaining silent «is little different from supporting further overpopulation and
ecological degradation».
«The fundamental problem with issues such as Climate Change and
Ecological Degradation is that they stem from a core problem, the exponential growth of human demands upon the earth, and thus the only solution is an end to that growth.