Sentences with phrase «ecological disaster as»

Kenya, a country of vast beauty and natural resources, is plagued by water and power shortages and is headed for ecological disaster as a result of greed and corruption, asserts... Read More

Kenya, a country of vast beauty and natural resources, is plagued by water and power shortages and is headed for ecological disaster as a result of greed and corruption, asserts 1992 Goldman Prize winner and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.

Not exact matches

Yet ecological disasters, fearsome instruments of war, vast systems of classism, racism, and sexism all have impact upon our lives, and we experience ourselves as caught up in such systems with or without our consent.

«Mining could be an ecological disaster — look to the barren, polluted pits left behind by gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, where the rivers are poisoned and forests decimated as an example.

This is most often framed as a serious humanitarian crisis — and it is — but it has also been an ecological disaster.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

One thing that needs to be assessed, says Day, is a possible «ecological disaster in the making» as flood water contaminated with «heavy metals, petroleum products, and who knows what else» is pumped into the wetland.

Drought and water scarcity are considered to be the most far - reaching of all natural disasters, causing short and long - term economic and ecological losses as well as significant secondary and tertiary impacts.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

At the end of the 21st century, the world is in ruins as a consequence of a deadly ecological disaster.

He counters the ecological and economic disaster of our era with a materialism of basic needs, displayed as a layout of ruined bodies.

In addition to outlining Alshaibi's intricate sense of formalism, the photographs, installations, and videos of Collapse indicate the underlying themes that have shaped an ongoing narrative in her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasters.

The issues in her work — behavior, cruelty, ecological disaster and manipulation of information emerge in quasi fairy - tale mode as paradoxes rather than assumptions.

However, I have very little idea what the effects of AGW on humanity will be beyond the fact that it is an ecological disaster which can kill lots of people in the developing world (excellent reasons to do whatever it takes to get rid of it, in my opinion) and so I have a problem with responding to the argument that we need do nothing because at least as far as the DEVELOPED world is concerned AGW will be at most a nuisance.

We need go back just 50 years to see how another disaster in the making — the «population explosion» — led not only to a positive ecological awareness, but also to the formulation and partial implementation of Draconian international social policies that have been revealed in the last decade as being motivated as much by post-colonial fears (and a fair amount of racism) as they were by «hard» science.

More from the Master:... Ecological disasters mean not enough food or land to support the population and megarich tourists hunting the poor to keep the numbers down but as sport too.

Insofar as climate denialism obstructs technological progress, it may provoke veritable disasters, susceptible in its turn of rendering catastrophic predictions more credible.Thus a vicious circle may develop, in which politics collapses into ecological panic.

As this short history of failed predictions reveals, prominent environmentalists have been using fears of famine and ecological disaster to promote a population - control agenda for many years.

From the ubiquity of assertions one sees that it is the poor and over-population that is causing the disaster, I suspect that the Right intend to make the global poor pay for the ecological collapse, while continuing their reedy excessive consumption as long as possible.

As we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gaAs we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gaas storage sites for natural gas.

Whatever ecological disaster it is that moves you, it is a moral imperative of every conscious being to evaluate claims of sustainability as they are presented.

«Generally, large scale burning is increasingly seen as an ecological disaster because it opens up the ground cover and greatly exposes small and medium vertebrates to predation by dingoes, foxes and feral cats,» Dr. Terry Dawson, who studies environmental physiology and arid zone mammals and birds, told TreeHugger.

The good news is that such air capture could be less expensive and invasive than, for instance, such measures, mentioned above, as «seeding the oceans with iron to spur plankton blooms» (which strikes me as a global ecological disaster waiting to happen if a mutation occurs or terrorists do a genetic hack.)