Sentences with phrase «environmental ravages»

His pitch for Capitalocene leaves out environmental ravages committed under Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and China, where destructive policies began under Mao well before that country's own capitalist tilt.

Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, exposing the environmental ravages of DDT, particularly among fish and birds of prey.

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Environmental journalist Girling ponders the many ways humans have steadily deteriorated biodiversity in our attempt to catalog and conquer the natural world, from bloody quests that stocked early zoos to the current ravages of the ivory trade.

Leafy greens are loaded with beta - carotene, a compound that protects plants from the ravages of sunlight and environmental threats.

Spencer's own words — «I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out - of - control environmental extremism.

But that still leaves the statement «I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out - of - control environmental extremism» — it seems pretty clear to me that he considers that he has had an influence on government policy.

And in an editorial earlier this year in the journal Medscape General Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry Steven Moffic proposed the use of aversion therapy involving «distressing images of the projected ravages of global warming» to encourage responsible environmental behaviour among sceptics (Moffic 2.9.2007).