Sentences with phrase «environmental arguments for it»

I think the Salon article is a fair criticism of one of the environmental arguments for farmers markets.

I don't think that early toilet training warps a child psychologically, and I think the environmental arguments for it are compelling.

Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single - Child Families.

Bob Holmes assesses the environmental argument for giving up eating meat (17 July, p 28), tacitly accepting the broad scientific...

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Not exact matches

The really compelling argument for disallowing the coal supply chain through Fraser Surrey Docks is that it effectively undoes that achievement in emissions reduction if the same hydrocarbons end up being burned and vented into the atmosphere in China, where if anything environmental protections are more lax.

A federal appeals court signed off on the U.S. Interior Department's decision to take land into trust for a proposed Native American casino, rejecting arguments that the tribe's promises to mitigate environmental effects are «illusory» because as a sovereign Native American nation, it can not be sued to enforce them.

Asked which province — B.C., which wants to delay the project for environmental reasons, or Alberta, which wants to avoid delays for economic reasons — is making the more compelling argument, Canadians are evenly split, with 50 per cent saying each province's government is more persuasive

Once again they can only explain away by appeal to another principle of order: for example, the neo-Darwinian argument that life on earth only seems to be teleological «because of environmental and molecular constraints on the direction of change» (from the online Wikipedia entry for «orthogenesis»).

This article is adapted from Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, to be published next month (June, 1998) by Simon & Schuster.

Their argument ignores the common practice of imposing environmental risks on one group (usually poorer, less powerful, and often rural) for the benefit of others who suffer none of the environmental risks.

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.

There are also different arguments for and against environmental protection being more important than the economy.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.

By Sean Ryan Local opposition and arguments against the need for a Beloit bypass killed the project years ago, but it finally was buried Friday when federal planners canceled environmental studies.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

«And the opportunity of developing value - added products is a strong argument for conservation and environmental protection,» he added.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

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Overnight, the essayist composes a first draft of a 3 - to 4 - paragraph summary of the team's most convincing arguments for its assigned environmental threat.

Perhaps most persuasive is the argument for installing solar PV systems (solar panels) which not only have environmental benefits but can potentially save a school anything up to # 8,000 a year.

Included is an essay revealing the «ethics» of her aesthetics ---- an argument for abstraction and an attention to truth that is not divorced from social and environmental concerns.

I also believe that more emphasis should be placed on economic arguments for moving away from non-renewable carbon - based fuels because those impacts are more obvious at present than longer - term environmental impacts.

The phrase has become boilerplate of late in arguments for action by environmental groups and some scientists.

For example, Huckabee might find an argument based on religious morality to be more compelling than one that focuses solely on environmental impact.

The Environmental Defense Fund (here) and Natural Resources Defense Council (here) have both laid out convincing arguments that can provide a blueprint for prompt action.

I hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and animal - welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.

Is there a moral argument for some threshold of environmental conditions that we must preserve for future generations?

In considering his argument, the work of Kahan and others on cultural cognition, and the paralyzed polarization of environmental politics, the next step, of course, is to test fresh paths toward an energy menu that works for the long haul.

As various arguments for action on global warming have failed to blunt growth in emissions in recent years, environmental groups and international agencies have sometimes tried to turn the focus to diseases that could pose a growing threat in a warming world — with malaria being a frequent talking point.

Days after the lawsuits were filed, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offered its recommendations for scheduling legal arguments — which the federal appeals court signed off on.

The media usually has room for only one environmental argument: is climate change happening?

The only argument that might actually discover a receptive audience in the new Washington is one that says, «We need a rapid build - out of solar and wind power, as much for economic as environmental reasons.»

The national security argument is compelling — think energy security (distributed PV is far less vulnerable to failure than centralized fossil power), economic security (green jobs), social security (distributed PV is ideal for rural electrification), and of course environmental security.

Her point, it seems, is to show that in the cases of acid rain, CFCs, and environmental tobacco smoke, these men used the same argument: the science was uncertain, concerns were exaggerated, technology will solve the problem, no need for government interference.

In a similar argument, Katharina Nett and Lukas Rüttinger in a report for adelphi asserted last month that «large - scale environmental and climatic change contributes to creating an environment in which [non-state armed groups] can thrive and opens spaces that facilitate the pursuit of their strategies.»

The Kichwa cosmovison contributes to indigenous support for efforts to combat climate change, acting as a compliment to Western scientific arguments, we found in our second analysis, in Global Environmental Politics.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

On September 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in a major challenge to the Clean Power Plan, West Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — an enormously high - stakes legal battle, that could determine whether Obama's climate plan is ever put into effect.

Logical arguments previously have been presented by others touting the environmental advantages of reduce, reuse, recycle and the creation of markets for the raw materials within the waste stream.

His work lays a lot of the ground for the environmental movement's arguments.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Obama's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency became the latest forum for an ongoing argument over global warming, jobs, the future of the U.S. coal industry, and the role of the federal government.

As a neighbor Oregonian, I'm all for more trees but it would seem contrary to the arguments other environmental websites speak about lowering albedo and that water vapor is, in itself, a greenhouse gas.

Four years of study and talking to industry insiders and environmental organisations, some of which have backed CCS, show the arguments for carbon capture differ from country to country, but in none of them is the technology taking off, he reports.

He can only hear an argument in defence of abundance as an argument for environmental destruction and death based on some mathematically impossible concept of «infinite growth», no matter that the claim he makes finds little substance in reality.

Two, in response to arguments from some climate change skeptics, many scientific organizations with expertise relevant to climate change have endorsed the consensus position that «most of the global warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities» including the following: • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Astronomical Society • American Chemical Society • American Geophysical Union • American Institute of Physics • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • Australian Coral Reef Society • Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO • British Antarctic Survey • Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences • Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Environmental Protection Agency • European Federation of Geologists • European Geosciences Union • European Physical Society • Federation of American Scientists • Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of Australia • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Royal Meteorological Society • Royal Society of the UK

«The first thing I should say is that I've lost some of my respect for those kind of consensus arguments since covering the acid rain story in particular, since covering a lot of the environmental scares, swine flu, everything,» Ridley said.