Sentences with phrase «environmentalists fear»

Embattled president is regularising illegally occupied land at knock - down prices, in a move environmentalists fear will lead to more deforestation

«Organizations suing to eliminate the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean have gotten the OK to proceed with a suit designed to reopen the area to commercial fishing, which environmentalists fear could jeopardize preservation efforts.»

Environmentalists fear the proposal, crafted by a troika of Democratic, Republican, and Independent senators, would weaken a climate change bill passed by the house last June.

Technology - skeptical environmentalists fear that transparency policies will be implemented in place of any substantive regulations that limit what researchers can do, creating a functionally deregulated research environment.

Hydropower is already widely used across the region but environmentalists fear the investment in coal could backfire as governments may be forced to invest hundreds of millions of euros more to upgrade plants to meet European Union environmental standards as the countries progress toward membership of the bloc.

Hydropower is already widely used across the region but environmentalists fear the investment in coal could backfire

The transition to low - carbon energy sources in the Balkans could cause irreversible environmental damage, environmentalists fear.

Some environmentalists fear the decision will clear the way for the approval of several such plants in the last days of the Bush administration.

And some environmentalists fear that the public might begin to ignore their message before any meaningful change can be accomplished.

Geoengineering has long been controversial, and some scientists and environmentalists fear there could be unintended consequences.

But environmentalists fear changed seasonal flows of the river will destroy the river's fisheries, one of the region's most important sources of food (see Map).

New York officials and environmentalists fear the open water disposal of muck dredged primarily from Connecticut harbors could pollute the waters of the Sound and harm commercial and recreational fishing.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

Environmentalists fear that the production and processing of the gas for export could upend the province's aggressiveclimate change policies, which include an emissions - reduction goal and an unusual carbon tax system.

Stop using environmentalist fear - mongering to impose immoral legislation interfering in people's lives.

Not exact matches

He shows how the fear of dire ecological disaster has repeatedly allowed the unscientific claims made by environmentalists and the consequences of the reforms they propose to escape unchallenged.

HARTFORD — Fears that looming state budget cuts and thousands of layoffs might cripple Connecticut's state parks and forest system are pushing some lawmakers and environmentalists to seek new ways of funding and new park protections.

The measure has alarmed scientists, environmentalists, and indigenous rights advocates, who fear it would gut the country's environmental licensing process.

The first full sequencing of a coral genome has revealed that corals originated much earlier than previously thought, and at least one important species is far more fragile than environmentalists had feared.

Pandora's Promise / U.S.A. (Director: Robert Stone)-- A growing number of environmentalists are renouncing decades of antinuclear orthodoxy and have come to believe that the most feared and controversial technology known to mankind is probably our greatest hope.

But then he meets Mary (Amanda Seyfried), who begs him to counsel her husband, Michael (Philip Ettinger), a radical environmentalist so consumed with his fears of the Earth's impending doom that he wants Mary to abort their unborn child.

Update, June 19 I was heartened, via a note from Gerald Zhang - Schmidt, to learn that George Monbiot has just encouraged environmentalists to overcome their fear of optimism.

The visit, Barnes adds, «was not made public for fear of outraging environmentalists all the more».»

Tech Central Station: The Novel On Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, in which environmentalists use weather control to fake environmental disasters (hurricanes, tsunamis, a massive iceberg released from the Antarctic ice shelf) in order to convince the public that gl...

In hopes of making industrial shipping more profitable in the remote region, the construction of a new port has been proposed along the rivers» edge, stirring ire among environmentalists who fear it could blemish this important natural treasure.

Michael Crichton did not convince me of the premise that man - made Global Warming is a myth perpetuated by environmental Gods determined to control our «vision of the world», it was hysterical environmentalists themselves who convinced me to question their motivations and facts when I discovered after twenty years of fear - mongering that our world was not going to perish in an Ice Age.

Crichton stirred the climate debate with a 2004 novel, State of Fear, in which the bad guys were radical environmentalists trying to scare the world about global warming in order to line their pockets.

Sabin makes a strong case that Ehrlich's brand of science made it easy for conservative critics to caricature environmentalists as doom merchants and fear mongers who peddle dubious science as a means of advancing their big - government agenda.

Environmentalists warn of the fuel's carbon footprint, but fear of another dilbit spill has been more of a factor in mobilizing conservative landowners against the pipeline.

[28] I fear the irrational policies of extreme environmentalists far more that a warmer climate on this relatively cold planet (14.5 C global average temperature today compared with 25C during the Greenhouse Ages.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

The initial «Earth Day» kicked off with a warning about the coming ice age: «1970: First Earth Day Promoted Ice Age Fears — Excerpt: At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1970, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, «The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

Despite the ludicrous nature of these claims, they drew attention and promotion from environmentalists and people who saw the political potential of the fears his claims engendered.

It will be a compelling battle to try and replace the mother of all eco-scares — man - made global warming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc Morano

As man - made global warming fears enter the ashbin of history, what will environmentalists, UN activists and politicians do to fill the void of a failed eco-scare?

Germany's nuclear phase - out strikes either joy or fear into the hearts of environmentalists — joy over the end of nuclear power in a major industrial nation, or fear over the undeniable prospect of more coal - fired plants in central Europe.

But there is a huge list of examples of environmentalists drumming up huge amounts of fear based on the Precautionary Principle that turned out to not be very scary and big wastes of cash (and it isn't a valid refuatation to say the military wastes money too).

I'd like to hear someone attack Crichton's use of the benzene cancer scare as an example of fear mongering by environmentalist in the past.

In a conversation about trying to educate an ignorant environmentalist about the realities of Global Warming, Kenner sums up for me the essence of Crichton's presentation of science in State of Fear:

In «State of Fear,» it is money - hungry environmentalists whose illicit schemes are always being caught on tape.

The factions went their separate ways, smaller ones with the skeptic message, big investor - owned ones with lobbying, fearing upset among their urban environmentalist consumers.

Meanwhile, environmentalists have struggled to understand the public's unwillingness to respond to imperatives issued in breathless, urgent and shrill pronouncements — why the public were not mobilised by fear, as both green organisations and politicians had expected.

As this short history of failed predictions reveals, prominent environmentalists have been using fears of famine and ecological disaster to promote a population - control agenda for many years.

For the environmentalists in State of Fear, It was never about science or truth or even protecting the environment, only power and keeping a job.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism Its hard to tell if we are witnessing mass climate hysteria, or just loathsome fear mongering to promote a political agenda, but it is oh so predictable, and...

The move is likely to stir up criticism from environmentalists that fear palm oil production could soon become a major driver of deforestation in the region.

In October, Brazil sparked fear in the hearts of some environmentalists when President Dilma Rousseff signed into law a revised version of the country's forest code, which governs how much forest private landowners must maintain.

The visit was not made public for fear of outraging environmentalists all the more.»

He wrote an interesting novel, State of Fear, that used global warming to illustrate how environmentalists misuse science for a political agenda.

Environmentalists won't say this for fear of sounding alarmist or defeatist.