Sentences with phrase «environmental harm»

Developing technologies that will allow economic growth to continue without causing environmental harm will be necessary as long as this «iron law» holds true.

However, simply removing subsidies alone fails to reduce environmental harm, and incentives for better farming practices are still required.

However, such plants cause more environmental harm and health issues due to air pollution, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions.

More farming, however, usually means more environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertilizer.

Were you always aware of the cruelty, inequality and environmental harm involved in mainstream clothing and fashion production?

If environmental harm and public health impact aren't enough to help someone quit smoking, these high - definition images showing the effects of tobacco in the womb may do the trick.

[115] It includes an offence of causing serious or material environmental harm.

I just want to know what I'm doing so I use it responsibly and don't cause environmental harm or waste money.

Technological progress is increasingly decoupling environmental harm from economic growth.

Many Canadians expect our government to protect us from contamination and other environmental harms in outdoor air, water and land.

«To reach the scale at which they would contribute importantly to meeting global energy demand, renewable sources of energy such as wind, water, and biomass cause serious environmental harm.

«The court's affirmation of EPA's expert scientific decision to prevent unacceptable environmental harm gives West Virginia communities essential and much - needed protection for local waterways, mountains, and a sustainable way of life that doesn't depend on blowing up mountains, and we will continue calling on EPA to do more to protect communities.»

Despite the lengthy time lags involved, delaying rollouts of low - carbon - emission energy technologies risks even greater environmental harm in the second half of this century and beyond.

DAPL is controversial because of its potential for environmental harm.

Part of the reason is EPA is only considering the domestic cost of methane emissions in its calculations, a fact that critics say severely underestimates the global environmental harm caused by the gas.

Economists studying taxes on environmental harms, such as carbon emissions, often suggest that the tax be set according to the damage inflicted by the last unit of emissions.

But in the post-Rio world, the environmental risk of spent nuclear fuel must be weighed against the potential environmental harm of the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels.

Enacting this legislation would put people out of work — work that is permitted by the Department of Environmental Conservation and causes no demonstrated environmental harm, in order to effectuate a moratorium that is principally symbolic,» Governor Paterson said.

It said it would cause minimal environmental harm even though Keystone I spilled 12 times in it first year.

«Delaying rollouts of low - carbon - emission energy technologies risks even greater environmental harm in the second half of this century and beyond.»

Despite the notion that we are at a critical juncture where the «capacity of human beings to inflict environmental harm has increased in proportion to developments in technology» (p. 114) Burdon leaves us with a somewhat optimistic outlook.

Unlike all the other strategies outlined in the book, Criswell's lunar solar power is (at least according to him) scalable and affordable enough to not only meet all world energy needs as currently projected, but to allow for significant expansion in global world product without environmental harm.

Disappointingly, the article that followed merely explained that the President required federal agencies to certify that their programs do not inflict unfair environmental harm upon minorities and the poor.

In order to comply with the general environmental duty and protect the environmental values in the Lower Balonne under the Queensland Environmental Protection Act 1994 (EP Act), reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm caused by prescribed water contaminants should occur.

Since it was discovered in 1985, the Antarctic ozone hole has been a potent symbol of humankind's ability to cause unintended environmental harm.

«The second is we ignore the issue and that leads to continued environmental harm, and the third option is we do something new.»

Environmental harm remains a big concern as the tidal industry develops, and U.S. regulators require testing to insure that such turbines don't pose a threat to marine life.

We need to be, and to be perceived as, an industry with a moral imperative, and being a conduit for this kind of reckless environmental harm is reprehensible.

Moomaw and Mihaela Papa, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Law School, sent me a short piece proposing ways to invigorate the faltering climate treaty process by shifting the focus from confrontations over emissions to collaborative work encouraging access to modern energy choices while limiting environmental harms.

The green movement includes «Elves» — Earth Liberation Front radicals who firebomb houses under construction to prevent their supposed environmental harm (never mind that lumber smoke is a greenhouse gas).

Public policies that protect against environmental harms are listed as a business risk, i.e. a threat to their basic business model.

Firstly, conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an over-reliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate effect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.

I remain astonished at the fervour with which greens like Mark defend wind power at all costs, despite growing evidence that it does real environmental harm, rewards the rich at the expense of the poor and does not cut carbon dioxide emissions significantly if at all.

Rubbish lying around is unsightly; but worse, if it is washed into waterways and streams, lakes and the ocean, it can do huge environmental harm.

Palm oil manufacturing causes lasting environmental harm by contributing to climate change via deforestation and releasing toxic pollutants into the air, water and soil surrounding processing plants.

As long as it is leaking naturally, into the environment, there's and overwhelming case for tapping into both, to actually and massively reduce the total environmental harm, these currently uncontrolled releases are doing!

And, true to label, a Green Climate Fund supported by Australia and 42 mostly developed countries will redistribute $ US100 billion ($ 128bn) annually to poorer nations as reparation for the unspecified environmental harm the West has allegedly caused them.

To say this memo subset is as out - of - context as the GCC presentation is an understatement; it was never actually a component of what accusers say it was, and therefore is worthless as evidence to prove the fossil fuel industry conspired with skeptic scientists to downplay the alleged catastrophic environmental harm of fossil fuels.

Second, the production process creates a number of hazardous byproducts... Third, food - to - fuel mandates are helping drive up the price of agricultural staples, leading to significant changes in land use with major environmental harm.

The suit brought by city, county and state officials alleges the 80,000 metric tons of methane that have escaped the storage field since October have endangered the public's health and set off a sequence of statewide environmental harms that will linger for years.

(p. 11) It is this perspective that produces a reduced sense of responsibility for one's actions which can potentially generate environmental harms.