Through a series of aerial photographs of the Mon - Valley - Braddock region, I came to know that DuBois» words resonate with the current
environmental crisis along the Monongahela River in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Not exact matches
She says the government agency gives practical advice on modern
crises such as cyber - or terror attacks, pandemic or
environmental threats,
along with conventional warfare.
«In a lot of modern research in
crisis management, people are looking at how communities mobilize
along social networks to overcome traumatic
environmental crises, like we saw with Hurricane Katrina,» said Lewis Borck, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in the UA School of Anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Four decades after publishing The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich, for one, is still a firm believer that overpopulation — and
along with it, overconsumption — is the central
environmental crisis facing the world.
Now, with the Women's March and #MeToo movement gathering power,
along with the
environmental crisis we have created, her work seems even more potent.
But the unquestioned assumptions — that economic growth is an end in itself, that a natural area is «wasted» until a profit - oriented development comes
along, that all
environmental costs are «externalities» that need not enter the economic paradigm — are the causes of the
environmental crisis.