Sentences with phrase «ecological degradation in»

To be sure, it is unlikely that the effects of ecological degradation in our time, though enormous, will prove «apocalyptic» for human civilization within a single generation, even under conditions of capitalist business as usual.

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They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

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.

Because of their vulnerability, frogs and salamanders are frequently the first animals to succumb to environmental degradation, and thus are now looked upon as the ecological equivalent of the proverbial canary in the mine shaft.

Any ecological degradation has not led to a collapse in human welfare.

The study, «Beneath the Canopy: Tropical forests enrolled in conservation payments reveal evidence of less degradation,» recently was published in the current issue of Ecological Economics.

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.

Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.

Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.

Ecovention was a term invented by Amy Lipton and Sue Spaid in 1999 to refer to an ecological art intervention in environmental degradation.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Inequality, Pollution

Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Peak Oil, Pollution

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

Rainforest Rescue of Germany and Ecological Internet have launched a campaign leading to Copenhagen's climate talks in December to ensure carbon based funding for forest protection — called avoided deforestation, or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-- remains ecologically and socially rigorous, or does not proceed at all.

While we applaud these efforts, which can ease ecological stress in the short - term, minimizing environmental degradation is not a strategy for real change, nor does it offer an inspiring vision of success.

The alternative is continued ecological degradation and a worsening of climate change, which in turn would make food production harder.

... Without Accounting For Environmental Degradation There's obviously value there, in knowing that sum total figure, but it doesn't really go very far in answering questions about whether that economic activity is occurring within sustainable ecological boundaries.

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».