Sentences with phrase «environmental resource degradation»
Decoupling is an instrument used to break the link between economic growth (sales revenue) and environmental resource degradation (energy use).
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These founders have witnessed the consequences of unfettered capitalism, and it isn't a pretty picture: global warming, pollution, income inequality, environmental degradation, and resource depletion.
At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.
As well as being responsible for a huge chunk of global greenhouse gas emissions, meat productionrequires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources — land, water and energy — and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation.
It also requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources (land, water and energy) and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.
Food is not fixed in time, yet we have been poor managers of our resources over the years as human civilization has progressed and today stand at a situation where sustaining our biggest source of energy has transformed into our biggest problem coupled with environmental degradation.
It requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy, and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.
Not just about baby food marketing, but trade union busting; failure to act on child labour and slavery in its cocoa supply chain; exploitation of farmers, particularly in the dairy and coffee sectors; and environmental degradation, particularly of water resources.
«It should be noted that the Governor and his environmental and energy resources team are trying to do what has not been accomplished — or even attempted — in other states that have permitted hydrofracking: to regulate hydrofracking such that the gas companies bear the full cost of production of their product, and not have their product «subsidized» by the degradation of the State's water, air and land resources.
According to President Akufo - Addo, the completion of the SDGs in 2030, presents this generation with the great opportunity to fight inequality on all fronts, wipe out extreme poverty, tackle the issues of climate change and reverse the degradation and unsustainable use of our environmental resources.
«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Humans» ability to prevent local environmental degradation hinges to a large extent on cooperation and other «pro-social» behaviors, while «anti-sociality» (such as conflict) is widely considered counterproductive to sustainable resource governance.
«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.
Are there resources out there to let us go in and get more information fast in the face of this environmental degradation?
But in a world which does not place a cost on environmental degradation, but sees the environment as a free resource, it is not surprising that a market - led energy policy lets industry dump sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other pollutants indiscriminately into the atmosphere unless prevented by legal regulation.
They considered all the main issues affecting penguin populations including; terrestrial habitat degradation, marine pollution, fisheries bycatch and resource competition, environmental variability, climate change and toxic algal poisoning and disease.
8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10 - year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead
Urbanisation and demographic changes, environmental degradation and a lack of essential services also place huge demands on water resource managers.
The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.
In a world fractured by the effects of environmental degradation, political turmoil, and economic crises, it is easy to forget that cultures of peace depend on good governance and equitable management of our natural resources.
To the Kenya Defense Forces, the Professor was an enduring source of inspiration as we teamed up with her and the GBM to tackle the eco challenge in not only greening our country but more importantly in solving conflicts emanating from environmental degradation and competition for the division of resources.
Both physical and environmental carrying capacity is being exceeded at several locations, thereby leading to congestion, the deterioration of the nature - oriented recreational experience and resource degradation.
There's a quick corrosion of the value of land that we're all experiencing through environmental degradation and the lack of respect for natural resources.
The images I offer here are mainly ones that harken to what is still alive and vibrant in our times — times that are increasingly characterized by human conflict, overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation.
From that time until now, powerful interests located in the political economy have relentless sought to denigrate the virtual mountains of scientific evidence relating to environmental degradation and resource dissipation.
How will we feed, shelter, and educate three billion more people by 2050 in an era of accelerating climate change, resource scarcity and environmental degradation?
During the last 20 years, Madagascar has undertaken significant and exemplary efforts to stop environmental degradation, effectively manage natural resources and preserve its unique biodiversity in the pursuit of sustainable development.
The issues of human - driven biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and rampant resource dissipation, among other things, appear extremely significant to human and environmental health as well as to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth, even in these days.
The human community can count on more environmental degradation, more resource dissipation, more people to feed.
Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.
We believe population growth contributes to environmental degradation, resource depletion, poverty and inequality.
The global environment and economic security are indelibly intertwined, with increasing greenhouse gases, environmental degradation and natural - resource depletion putting sustainable growth and existing business models at risk.
Even though I do agree with this basic premise, I think that any society with an economic system based on natural resource extraction at a massive scale and limitless consumption will inexorably result in environmental degradation, regardless of its ideology or discourse.
Climate Change and Himalayan Cold Deserts: Mapping vulnerability and threat to ecology and indigenous livelihoods The remote cold desert stretches of high altitude Himalayas, having a fragile ecosystem are characterized by complex interplay of climatic and geo - morphological processes, availability of limited natural resources and economic conditions leading to accelerated resource degradation and associated environmental consequences [continue reading...]
Enhanced agricultural productivity produces resources for solving problems of lack of development and environmental degradation.
Locally, communities not only lose access to water and land resources, but are subjected to the environmental degradation that comes along with monocrop cultivation, including soil and water contamination from pesticide pollution and soil erosion.
And herein lies the problem, this article fails to discuss what is driving the rampant «resource» exploitation namely economic growth which in turn is acting as a driver of environmental degradation.
Well, change is happening all over the world: both environmental changes such as land degradation and decreases in water resources, but also social changes caused by events such as war and financial crises.
A cornerstone of modern environmentalism is the claim that affluence and technology are the problem — that they actually increase environmental degradation and deplete the world's natural resources.
Measuring the benefits humans receive from the environment and putting a dollar value on them allows us to better understand the true cost of environmental degradation and provides us with tools to make informed decisions about resource management trade - offs.
This report highlights the need of new ways to manage competing demands on freshwater resources, in the face of increasing environmental degradation and the multi-faceted impacts of climate change.
So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.
Current regulatory systems ignore the long - term implications of exposure to toxicity, unpredictable waste streams, environmental degradation and natural resource depletion that these materials cause, and while life - cycle and ecosystem services analyses are gaining traction, for the most part, the negative impact of these products is not given the attention it deserves.
According to SERI, some 2.4 billion computers, tablets, and other mobile devices were sold worldwide last year, all of which require a variety of precious metals and other resources to manufacture, and by extending the useful life of electronics through certified refurbishing processes, it can help reduce some of the environmental and social degradation associated with electronics manufacturing.
Here's more: Domestic Energy Gains Not Worth Environmental Degradation In his ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina said that the any gains to be had from development of domestic energy resources on the lands were outweighed by the public interest in avoiding damaging the environment of these areas.
In addition to natural calamities, the Institute will focus on «creeping» environmental hazards — including climate change, land degradation, degradation of the social environment, population displacement, and changing resource availability and quality — which imperil communities in a more gradual but equally detrimental and multifaceted way.