Sentences with phrase «environmentally destructive»

San Francisco, CA About Blog The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally destructive industries out there.

Over 98 percent of large bushfires occur outside the populous south - east and south - west of Australia with over 70 percent occurring as environmentally destructive wildfires in the savannas of northern Australia.

In Arnhem Land, Kuninjku people express ambivalence about the problem of the environmentally destructive buffalo in an Indigenous Protected Area.

San Francisco, CA About Blog The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally destructive industries out there.

Or, at the very least, a federal government with the political backbone to say no to environmentally destructive fossil fuel projects.

They've been in existence for nearly a decade, and are designed to forge consensus on how to more sustainably harvest some of the planet's most environmentally destructive but economically lucrative crops.

We believe there are more cost - effective and less environmentally destructive alternatives.»

Moreover, a full - spectrum environmental impact analysis shows Nevada's existing renewable power mandate promotes some environmentally destructive energy sources at the expense of much greener options,» the report summary reads.

The idea of «substitution» looms large in the ecomodernist agenda — developing technologies that can replace environmentally destructive practices.

Tot led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q'eqchi people and kept environmentally destructive nickel mining from expanding into his community.

In southeast Louisiana, well - intentioned but environmentally destructive flood control strategies and the dredging of canals for oil drilling have led to the continued loss of football - field sized patches of wetlands every hour.

Two of the most environmentally destructive practices on the planet, palm oil plantations and tar sands exploitation, in one country in exchange for an unlikely sustainable future.

We need to move beyond this antiquated Farm Bill that spends billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize environmentally destructive commodity crops that feed factory farms and junk food companies.

A gradual adjustment toward sustainability relies on governmental initiatives to orient production and consumption into less environmentally destructive channels.

What I will say though is that while job creation is a noble goal, creating jobs that support the development of technologies that are just socially and environmentally destructive in the long run, as fracking clearly has the potential to be, is just the same sort of short - term thinking that got us into the economic mess we're in right now.

Add all those things to the price of fossil fuels and the economic balance tips towards less socio - environmentally destructive power methods very quickly.

If you like to write, try your hand at an op - ed piece for your local newspaper on the need to raise taxes on environmentally destructive activities and offset this with a lowering of income taxes.

Like the rest of its Puffleg brethern, it has «little cotton balls above [its] legs,» said Luis Mazariegos - Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy, in an interview with the AP.The bird's tiny territory in the Cauca province is under siege, however, by the environmentally destructive drugs industry, which relies on slashing and burning vast swathes of land for growing illegal crops such as coca, otherwise known as the raw material in cocaine.

Eliminating environmentally destructive subsidies reduces both the burden on taxpayers and the destructive activities themselves.

Lower oil prices may be cutting into the financial viability of Canadian oil sands projects, but as soon as oil prices rise again (and they will...) the drive to exploit one of the most environmentally destructive form of energy on

However, a controversial reform of the town planning system has many in Israel accusing the government of promoting environmentally destructive policies.

It also looks at the Molycorp mine here in the US and the ways the company is trying to extract minerals in a less environmentally destructive way — though how far the mining industry can really go to green its business is debatable.

So it is with socio - environmentally destructive practices like continued rampant burning of and reliance upon fossil fuels (or industrialized monoculture farming, or industrial fishing, or any number of things)-- importantly, it's not the fossil fuels itself which are the problem here, rather it's the scale of the damage.

It's been dubbed the «most environmentally destructive project on Earth».

Past efforts to get at the region's oil shale have involved strip - mining, a technique that proved both environmentally destructive and prohibitively expensive.

It takes a lot of energy and water to extract and refine this resource into useable fuel, and the mining is environmentally destructive.

These sort of projects seem to be popping up with greater frequency lately, and it's time to start openly calling them out for what they are: Greenwashing of environmentally destructive factory farming.

From another angle, if the US wasn't so utterly dependent on fossil fuels it would not have to spend so much money supporting the national and corporate goals of ensuring that the oil keeps flowing, in the process supporting despotic regimes, even supporting friendly governments trying to peddle their environmentally destructive oil as a better alternative to those regimes, and de facto supporting rampant environment destruction in some of the world's poorest regions.

Growing and processing sugar is the first step of making rum — and it's also one of the most environmentally destructive — resulting in soil degradation and erosion, the overuse and pollution of local water resources, the spread of pesticides and fertilizers, emissions of greenhouse gases, and habitat destruction.

The result was an unfair scapegoating of the hemp plant as the culprit as opposed to the symbolism itself, which, by the way, appears much more commonly on T - shirts and fabrics made from more widely available (and environmentally destructive) cotton.

Last year on average more than two people were killed a week defending their land against environmentally destructive industries like mining, agribusiness, logging and hydropower.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is centrally involved with pushing environmentally destructive legislation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, today complained that «Earth Day has been a largely somber event» when it should be «a celebration of the wonderful achievements humankind has made in cleaning and greening the planet,» wrote Todd Wynn, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director.

Thus far, Germany has shifted 2 percent of its tax burden from incomes to environmentally destructive activities.

The Netherlands has also shifted taxes to environmentally destructive activities.

U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers need to awaken to the environmentally destructive wealth transfer and corporate land grab that is industrial wind energy, before more of our priceless American countrysides and wildlife are destroyed.

Many countries have implemented taxes on environmentally destructive products and activities while simultaneously reducing taxes on income.

Earthworks, an NGO dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development, stated: «It is more likely the sentence is retribution for Mr. Munkhbayar's long history of challenging environmentally destructive interests than because of any danger posed or law broken by Mr. Munkhbayar and his fellow activists.»

Worldwide, environmentally destructive subsidies exceed $ 500 billion annually.

The IPCC findings provide a mandate to halt environmentally destructive practices often promoted in the name of development as such practice will increase the vulnerability of communities in the global South to the impacts of climate change.

Today, Ona's fight to expose Olam's environmentally destructive rubber tree plantation projects continues: «Development strategies can not be imposed on a people without their advice.

Rodrigo Tot, Guatemala: An indigenous leader in Guatemala's Agua Caliente, Rodrigo Tot led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q'eqchi people and kept environmentally destructive nickel mining from expanding into his community.

He has used this expertise to promote the development of green jobs and enhanced energy efficiency, focusing on moving the U.S. away from environmentally destructive means of energy production like coal and oil, in favor of sustainable power generation.

Studies of the «external costs» of coal have identified coal - fired power generation as among the most environmentally destructive industrial technologies.

Throughout the course of the pipeline's construction, Kochladze waged a legal battle to force BP and the Georgian Ministry of Environment to reexamine the Borjomi route in favor of a less environmentally destructive alternative.

The true threat is environmentally destructive industries, such as Monsanto, who are systematically destroying these natural mechanisms by genetically engineering crops to act as pesticides all year round.

The analysis of the pattern of environmental degradation presented in Slow Violence might have been further enriched through the historical examination of some of the parts of the world that have successfully transitioned from highly environmentally destructive modes of economic development to modes that are far more benign, at least in their local effects.

Hydro, however, is environmentally destructive.

To create an honest market, we need to restructure the tax system by reducing taxes on work and raising those on carbon emissions and other environmentally destructive activities, thus incorporating indirect costs into the market price.

What is striking is how much environmentalism is environmentally destructive.

It takes a lot of energy to extract and refine this resource into useable fuel, and the mining is environmentally destructive.