Sentences with phrase «environmental catastrophe»

Only a shared perception of environmental catastrophe caused by climate change might change that reality.

I'd say 0 %, but there's always a chance of a big Black Ops delay or... I don't know, a major environmental catastrophe at the disc production plant.

If we just stop all renewable energy projects, the world will be saved from environmental catastrophe.

Humans must stay within certain boundaries if they hope to avoid environmental catastrophe.

The real question is: How certain are we that human emissions are the cause of a future environmental catastrophe?

Suppose we can't make the pie any bigger without risking environmental catastrophe?

It seems he does not consider the destruction of the earth and all of its inhabitants via environmental catastrophe a security risk.

Our technological ability to create realistic computer - generated scenes of environmental catastrophe lends a certain realism to a movie.

But they shouldn't be fooled by that — the reef is in the midst of a major environmental catastrophe.

So, against the backdrop of environmental catastrophe in China and these less than attractive calculations, could the billions being thrown at wind farms be better spent?

Nine years later, he and a former student published an article in the International Journal of Coal Geology titled «Coal Fires Burning Out of Control Around the World: Thermodynamic Recipe for Environmental Catastrophe.»

Geographer Jared Diamond's Collapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civilizations.

The photograph is from her 2016 work Flint is Family, where Frazier spent five months with three generations of Flint women who suffer and still thrive as they face the water crisis in Flint — «the worst man - made environmental catastrophe in recent national memory.»

Industry's complaints must be regarded with the same healthy skepticism accorded those who predict environmental catastrophe in the absence of dramatic changes in energy use.

«Past warnings of potential environmental catastrophes have begun to be borne out,» the report concludes, criticising failures to adapt to climate change and tackle the growing demand for limited freshwater resources.

Results from my own consensus climate models prove that even if the climate stabilizes, Climate Stability of Doom (CSOD) caused by the CO2 from fossil fuels will result in widespread weather disasters and other environmental catastrophes within 50 - 100 years unless we act now.

Even as the perpetrators of the biggest environmental catastrophe in US history tout their efforts to clean up the oil spill swirling around the Gulf, they neglect to mention one thing: they still stand to make millions of

During the global climate talks in Paris in December 2015, Polman drummed home the point to business leaders and politicians that companies» survival depended on averting environmental catastrophe.

Five weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the island appears to be in the midst of a growing environmental catastrophe.

While not searching for evidence of an impending environmental catastrophe, the author does believe that the West has arrived at a watershed in the way it views the natural world.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog, the thriller stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres, and Gael Garcia Bernal; watch it below after the official synopsis... When a renowned scientist is sent to Bolivia on an urgent mission to analyse a looming environmental catastrophe -LSB-...]

Nearly one month into the worst environmental catastrophe in US history, President Barack Obama finally appeared to be stepping up his response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe.

Further to the comments by Heiko (# 6) on the economics of [climate change - related] environmental catastrophes, at least from an economist's perspective, but opposite my perspective on my own standard of living:

«Only last November, over 15,000 scientists from across the world issued a «warning to humanity», bluntly stating that unless we change our ways, we face environmental catastrophe.

It's a pace appropriate to the demands of inexorable environmental catastrophe.

She learns in her freshman seminar that unjust economic and social «systems» have intertwined and are driving the planet toward environmental catastrophe.

The gorgeously shot documentary looks at an underreported environmental catastrophe, and how we can help.

We worry that the country's 82,000 fracking wells, which push natural gas out of underground shale, may create environmental catastrophe.

Sadly, this year will quite possibly become the warmest on record, yet another testimony to human - induced environmental catastrophes running out of control.

The boy, Kitai, is unprepared for the role of hero when his father's starship crashes on their ancestral home, Earth, a millennium after war and environmental catastrophe forced humanity to evacuate to deep space and fend off new enemies.

A video of a man coughing incessantly (another historical work, this time by Christian Boltanski from 1969) and films combining slapstick, slavery and environmental catastrophe add to the sombre mood of this seven - month, artistic state - of - the - union address.

An earlier commenter mentioned this 1997 episode of «Star Trek Voyager» in which Voyager encounters a space - faring species called the Voth, who are discovered (via genetic analysis) to be descendants of a technologically advanced dinosaur species that developed warp drive and fled the Earth millions of years ago to escape environmental catastrophe.

The Three Gorges Dam in China is considered by many to be one of the most outrageous environmental catastrophes every put in place by any government, even though it is the largest single source of «renewable» energy operating in China today.

Now, however, in the midst of ongoing environmental catastrophe, all of us — doubters as well as reluctant believers — have the opportunity and good reasons, to overcome our denial.

«We fiddle as Rome Burma's, I implore you to take climate change and the possibility of environmental catastrophes seriously.

Tales of extreme climate and resulting environmental catastrophes from Russia to Pakistan haven't done it,» he warned.

And look at the review above which got quoted approvingly on the Future Geek blog: «Will the approaching environmental catastrophe it warns of be averted, or will we soon witness places like the Outer Banks, Manhattan, the Bay Area and Bangladesh sliding beneath the waves with the same kind of dumbstruck horror provoked by the TV images of Hurricane Katrina?

Even an immediate program to eliminate carbon emissions, adopted worldwide, may not be enough to prevent the kinds of environmental catastrophes associated with rapidly increased global temperatures.

There has been one reason for the reluctance of some of the rich countries of the world to reduce their emissions and help to stave off environmental catastrophe — the perceived impact of reducing emissions on the rate of economic growth and especially the growth of a handful of powerful industries.

The absolute environmental catastrophes behind the iron curtain were yet to be witnessed.