Sentences with phrase «environmental consequences grows»

Currently, residents of Montréal generate, on average, 350 kilograms (772 lbs) of garbage per person each year, with an estimated 70 percent of that waste coming from food products; but the attitude toward waste is shifting as awareness of environmental consequences grows.

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For example, if Canadians considered more closely the environmental and social consequences of harvesting the oilsands, they might go about it differently than if they simply considered how much Alberta's economy will grow by exporting oil to the U.S..

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19

Demands for scientific knowledge that makes a real difference to real peoples» lives grow as the consequences of global environmental changes become a reality for communities across the world, and societal risk profiles become increasingly complex.

There are, of course, multiple problems associated with growing global demand for metals, including the environmental consequences of extraction and the long - term potential of metal scarcities.

This theme has been amplified in passing decades, and one consequence has been a growing partisan divide over environmental protection (and other government programs).

Growing concern over the environmental consequences for the region's forests and the Rio Lempa was largely ignored by the government.

Imperial Oil, Exxon's Canadian subsidiary, as these documents demonstrate, had a clear understanding of the environmental and climate consequences of CO2 pollution from fossil fuel combution, yet its public denial of these links grew stronger throughout the 1990s.

And last week saw signs of the growing controversy as communities across dozens of states located on top of the cast Marcellus Shale Formation, an «unconventional natural gas reserve» across 10 states face gold - rush style leasing pressures and are reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency groundwater contamination and other consequences.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

Linehan hypothesizes that the disorder is a consequence of an emotionally vulnerable individual growing up within a particular set of environmental circumstances which she refers to as the Invalidating Environment.