Sentences with phrase «ecological devastation»
"Ecological devastation" refers to severe and extensive damage done to the natural environment, causing harm and destruction to various organisms, ecosystems, and their interactions. Full definition
He moved to protect many of these same regions from oil and gas development and the potential ecological devastation they bring.
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Even the slightest possibility that such a virus could reach Australia would create a risk of such immense ecological devastation that the «solution» to invasive gum trees would be worse than the problem - and so, the approach wouldn't be worth contemplating.
En route, Jackson finds ecological devastation and the radio rants of conspiracy nut Charlie (Woody Harrelson), who warns of the impending 2012 disaster, much to Jackson's disbelief.
And just last year, Blade Runner 2049 showed us an orange, dust - filled future blighted by ecological devastation, not dissimilar to Interstellar's premise of agrarian crisis.
Nearby, Andreas Gursky's not - quite - abstract print Bangkok III (2011) shows truck headlights shining on a rubbish - strewn Chao Phraya River, commenting on ecological devastation.
The literary critic Rob Nixon coined the term «slow violence» to describe ecological devastation whose effects are gradual and mostly out of sight.
An equally central challenge, that is not going to be touched upon by many politician for a long time yet, is that of a world population exploding while all sorts of human driven ecological devastation is taking place at the same time.
And the dramatic music video — shot in four different places and depicting man - made ecological devastation and renewal — was only rarely played on American MTV.
While we could not survive if the natural environment were utterly ruined, we could prosper very well under many scenarios of terrible ecological devastation, and so straightforward utilitarian economic analyses of environmental problems are not enough on their own to justify protecting nature.
Photographer Dillon Marsh contrasts the total output of South African mines against settings of violence and ecological devastation.
While we have no means of calculating analogous figures for the globe, the ecological devastation and increasing suffering of the poor in many parts of the world suggest to us that increased GNP in many Third World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainability.
It has also speeded up the ecological devastation of the planet and the exhaustion of the resources needed by the real economy.
But the United States continues to lead the effort to reduce barriers to trade in ways that in fact lead to ecological devastation.
This sprawling city of a million people, built on and out of volcanic rock on the shores of an exploding lake has become synonymous — insofar as it comes to the attention of the wider world at all — with catastrophic refugee crises, ecological devastation, and looting and pillaging.
«No one wants to see the wanton destruction of these animals, but to ignore the problems — not only tick - borne diseases, but ecological devastation and the inevitable clash between vehicles and deer — would be irresponsible.»
Grounds for Progress does not attempt to anthologize the overarching themes of historiography, globalization, or ecological devastation.
Danni Shen: Although your work initially appears joyous and celebratory, there's a darker side that references artificially constructed spaces, overgrowth and references to ecological devastation.
Fusing high art and cartoon, technological aspiration and ecological devastation, he creates playful works of art that evoke a state of whimsy.
In the computer generated waste land of Wall - E, a garbage - collecting robot is the last survivor on Earth, hoarding quaint treasures from the trash in a dogged attempt to find some slice of happiness amidst the ecological devastation left behind by
Randy Olson, a lapsed marine biologist turned filmmaker, has — in between efforts like «Flock of Dodos» and «Sizzle — A Global Warming Comedy» — has produced short videos illustrating how our «shifting baselines» for gauging environmental change blunt the impact of incremental losses, even when they add up to ecological devastation.
The ecological devastation was spectacular.