Sentences with phrase «environmental harms over»

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Understanding what happens at the places sand is mined, the places sand is used and the many points in between which experience loss, benefits or harm is within reach using research frameworks like telecoupling — which allows researchers to understand socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances.

Ever since its discovery in 1985, the springtime ozone hole over Antarctica has been an insistent reminder of humankind's ability to cause environmental harm.

And it calls on Congress «to take quick action to prohibit the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] from moving forward with new greenhouse gas regulations that will harm the nation's economy and threaten millions of jobs over the next quarter century.»

In a study done by Environmental Working Group in 2012, it was found that newborn babies had over 200 different chemicals in them including: Mercury — harms brain development and function Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons — linked to cancer Polybrominated dibenzodioxins and furans — toxic to endocrine system Perfluorinated chemicals — linked to cancer,... Read More»

«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.

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.

We, the elders that Steve Salmony talks about, in our noisy youthful rebellions lifted the veil of normalcy draped over the American Dream and exposed the imperial dreams that underlay it and the injustices, inequities, and environmental harms that ensued.

In contrast, most of the big environmental themes of this century concern phenomena that are complicated, diffuse, and poorly understood, with harms spread over time and space.

Environmental protection has made considerable strides over the last two or three decades, but only because it has been shown that it will not harm growth.

They added that the harm the cities claim is «speculative» and part of a complex chain of events that includes billions of oil and gas users and «environmental phenomena occurring worldwide over many decades.»

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

Having visited Beijing a number of times over the last 25 years, I need no persuading of the environmental harm that China's policy is causing.

Reichler has also represented Sovereign States in disputes over trans - boundary environmental harm, and disputes with foreign investors in the world's principal arbitral forums, including the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC).

For over 20 years, they have been seeking legal accountability as well as financial and environmental reparation for harms they allegedly have suffered due to Texaco's former operations in the region.