Sentences with phrase «ecological disasters in»

While we see the world our planet is dying, thanks to one of the largest ecological disasters in the world, because most terrible oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.

Frazier will present «Flint is Family (2016 - 2017), a series of works exploring the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the effects on its residents during one of the most devastating man - made ecological disasters in U.S history.

This study therefore shows that climate warming is not the only explanation of global ecological disasters in the past on Earth: it is important to continue analysing ancient marine sediments to gain a deeper understanding of the earth's climate system.

A couple of weeks after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, then Environment Minister Jim Prentice stated that «the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows that Canada's oilsands are less risky than offshore drilling.»

Finally, the EU should take into account the fact that significantly lowering the environmental standards in gold mining activities would set a grave precedent in Europe and enable not just the ecological disaster in Romania, but elsewhere in Europe.

The Coast Guard gave BP the go - ahead this morning, and the latest attempt to seal off the Gulf oil leak that is quickly turning into the biggest ecological disaster in history began at 2 p.m. eastern time.

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.

The mine was the site of an ecological disaster in 1998.

Werner Herzog wrangles Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal to recount the events of a fictitious ecological disaster in South America.

«Deepwater Horizon» — Leave it to Peter Berg to take the worst ecological disaster in history caused by a greedy and careless U.S. conglomerate into a film about how much «America Rocks!»

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.

Not exact matches

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

A tiny wealthy minority in a sea of ecological and social disaster, thanking God for our good fortune while waiting to be overrun by the poor on all sides?

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

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.

In a world so full of need and creeping ever closer to the brink of ecological disaster, is there some point where we must finally say right out loud that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

«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.

Last year, peatlands and lowlands in Indonesia were burning for months, an environmental and ecological disaster, increasing the threat of extinction for these species.

The desiccation of a remote island lake in Central Asia is one of the world's worst ecological disasters.

Several socio - ecological factors — including more frequent disasters, less prevalent infectious disease, and less climatic stress in poorer countries — were linked with individualism, but increased socioeconomic development was the strongest predictor of increased individualism over time.

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.

«Overuse of groundwaters in Libya has already caused ecological disasters,» says Tony Allen from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who is a specialist on Middle East water.

Julian Smith describes the ecological disasters generated by digging sand for use in concrete (17 February, p 35).

Nolan was influenced by the real - life ecological disaster of the Dust Bowl in 1930s North America, when the rich top soil essential to farming dried out and blew away, desolating vast areas and causing famine and mass human displacement — a situation that could yet happen again with the severe, ongoing US drought in the US.

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.

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.

In the classroom: The Dust Bowl is far from the only ecological disaster that's been compounded by human activity.

It's up to players to find the optimal winning combination of industries and ecological disasters that will ultimately lead to the destruction of Earth, before positive forces, their opponent in the game, can find the solutions to carbon emissions.

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

They ask what it means to «make» in a world filled with the aftermath and by - products of industrial consumer culture, where e-obsolescence insists on being visible and physically negotiated in the material world — a world in which optimistic Modernist ideologies of efficiency, productivity, mass - production, and newness result in dystopic technological breakdown and ecological disaster.

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 disasterIn 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 disasterin 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.

For communities and emergency responders an awareness of the ecological role in hazards and disasters is a valuable tool in their emergency response toolbox.

But in Southern California, a big natural gas leak turned into what Melissa called an epic ecological disaster, sending utilities searching for an alternative to gas.

Wouldn't it be ironic if, in an attempt to thwart ecological disaster from global warming, we in fact cause a disaster?

Also wrt # 18, the Enclosure Acts did not lead to a life of milk and honey for the displaced farmers and in the US, for example, the life of the Okies displaced from their farms by an ecological disaster was not celebrated for the ease and luxury they found in the cities.

Infrequent, large, high severity fires in these types of landscapes is not an ecological disaster, rather it is a continuation of an ancient process that most native species are well adapted to in those places.

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.

It embodies in it all the hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, plagues, pestilence, pollutions, and almost any other ecological disaster that one can imagine.

The aims of the project are to (a) compile an overview of natural disasters in the Nordic region and how ecological restoration actions can be used to mitigate such hazards (b) conduct regional feasibility case studies of strategic build up of ecosystem resilience which will be ongoing throughout the project time and (c) recommend actions to enhance build up of ecosystem resilience in the Nordic region..

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.

«Sheep farming in this country is a slow - burning ecological disaster which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution,» he writes.

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The unfolding ecological disaster on the Gulf Coast reveals the stark contrast in the energy choices that the Senate — and the nation — are due to make in coming months.

Between CO2, peak oil, environmental disasters, and the fact that the rest of the world holds most of oil reserves, there is every reason (economic, ecological, and strategic) in the world to start to pursue renewable energy sources, and even Anthony Watts knows this (he drives and sells electric cars, doesn't he?).

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.

Industrial and construction materials may contribute relatively little to greenhouse gas emissions and land use, but anyone who has ever seen (or lived next to) an open pit mine will know that they are ecological disaster zones in all sorts of other ways.

international Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are to be believed, our hunter - gatherer ancestors were experiencing something of an ecological disaster during this time - a large - scale environmental «Mega-drought» - which left animal and human lifeforms fighting for survival in an unforgiving climate amidst an agriculturally - redundant landscape.