Sentences with phrase «extensive ecosystem damage»

«Temperature increases beyond 1.0 °C may elicit rapid, unpredictable, and non-linear responses that could lead to extensive ecosystem damage,» the report said, suggesting there is nothing necessarily «safe» about a two degree limit.

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Yet these things surely are nothing but «the extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory» which «severely diminishes» the «peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory».
Higgins suggests the following definition for ecocide: The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of the that territory has been severely diminished.
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