Sentences with phrase «environmental devastation as»

Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to address urgent issues of environmental devastation as they affect the indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

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Capitalism, in truth, is pretty ambiguous as a cause of environmental devastation.

To refer to such devastation as an «environmental» problem is to miss the point.

This form of contamination can even result in environmental crises, such as devastation to the aquatic population and red - tide blooms, Yakovlev notes.

And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

SciDevnet: The large - scale devastation and deaths caused by landslides and floods in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have highlighted gaps in India's disaster preparedness, as well as a worrying neglect of environmental concerns in hilly areas.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

As Russia expanded its petroleum and nuclear interest, Marina Rikhvanova worked to protect Siberia's lake Baikal, one of the world's most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by these polluting industries.

In addition to the environmental devastation they wreak, oil spills kill Florida jobs that depend on clean coastal water such as fishing, tourism and their related industries.