Sentences with phrase «for environmental catastrophe»

I assume these scientists are simply part of the environmentalist groupthink (another word for consensus) that's been going on for decades that human is headed for some environmental catastrophe.

Nine years later, he and a former student published an article in the International Journal of Coal Geology titled «Coal Fires Burning Out of Control Around the World: Thermodynamic Recipe for Environmental Catastrophe.»

Not exact matches

Ask yourself what the chances are that a country's environmental problems might lead to catastrophe without also creating international military repercussions, possibly starting as an internal rebellion among a citizenry tired of its resource hardships, for which it blames the existing government.

He adds that isolating these signals from the ecosystem is not only useful for predicting environmental catastrophes, but they can also be used to determine which habitats are most likely to respond to conservation, and so allow ecologists to direct their efforts.

«Past warnings of potential environmental catastrophes have begun to be borne out,» the report concludes, criticising failures to adapt to climate change and tackle the growing demand for limited freshwater resources.

The boy, Kitai, is unprepared for the role of hero when his father's starship crashes on their ancestral home, Earth, a millennium after war and environmental catastrophe forced humanity to evacuate to deep space and fend off new enemies.

«Thailand has arguably been hampered in recent times by political upheavals and environmental catastrophes, such as recent flooding, but nevertheless still presents sizeable opportunities for economic and outbound tourism growth.

Robert R.M. Verchick, the author of «Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World,» and Gauthier - St.

He's also the author of a new book, Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World (Harvard Univ..

Even though human civilisation is threatened by grave environmental crises and global warming and many people are scared of impending catastrophe, Resurgence's vision is not driven by doom and gloom; rather it is inspired and motivated by love of nature, respect for the earth, reverence for all life and a fair «deal» to all people, believing that the power of love is greater than the force of fear and despair.

When another college professor, Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan, suggested that environmentalists stop challenging people's moral views directly and that they downplay tales of environmental catastrophe, Brulle said Hoffman was «looking for a third way out besides conflict.

Massive extinctions occur more often under cool environmental conditions or when clades are submitted to extreme stress by natural catastrophes; for example, intense volcanism, glaciations, epidemics, etc..

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

For instance it argues that economic growth is no longer a possibility without environmental degradation and catastrophe, and calls for a new model of economics, focussing on happiness insteFor instance it argues that economic growth is no longer a possibility without environmental degradation and catastrophe, and calls for a new model of economics, focussing on happiness instefor a new model of economics, focussing on happiness instead.

He quotes from Amory Lovins» eulogy for Donella Meadows, a Dartmouth - based environmental expert and writer: «when asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time — starting now.»

There has been one reason for the reluctance of some of the rich countries of the world to reduce their emissions and help to stave off environmental catastrophe — the perceived impact of reducing emissions on the rate of economic growth and especially the growth of a handful of powerful industries.

After a study last month revealed that the Great Barrier Reef was suffering a coral bleaching event for the second consecutive year, scientists have completed an aerial survey of the reef offering more evidence of the environmental catastrophe that is currently taking place.

And now, finally, a pushback, one that's coming long way round, not from anywhere within the environmental sandbox but from the larger world, the disillusioned, post-bubble, impending - catastrophe world that Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz tagged as Of the 1 %, by the 1 %, for the 1 %.

... The Environmentalist narrative of catastrophe, doom, and apocalypse, once given superficial scientific plausibility (in that science can not exclude the possibility of such things happening — which it never could), provides doubt and uncertainty about the security of the future, which in turn provides political momentum and legitimacy for environmental policies.

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

«[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

Dodging environmental catastrophe and global population collapse is Ehrlich's topic for his speech on Nov. 5 in Barcelona, where the Climate Change Talks 2009 are under way.

That may be so old timer, but some of us have been around long enough to know that ounce of prevention is worth a metric ton of remediation, and understand that your work is for the most part a result of bad decisions by these so called experts which have resulted in easily preventable environmental catastrophes, many of them large scale and ongoing.

That's why an article on «The World's Ongoing Ecological Disasters» — some of which make the BP spill pale in comparison — offered an especially striking reminder that there are ecosystems and people suffering outside the eye of the nightly news.A Five - Decade Oil Spill in Nigeria In his piece this week for Foreign Policy, author Joshua E. Keating highlights five global environmental catastrophes that appear to be even harder to solve that the BP spill.

Drying For Freedom follows the fight for the right to dry clothes naturally and reveals how drying clothes became a life threatening, environmental social catastropFor Freedom follows the fight for the right to dry clothes naturally and reveals how drying clothes became a life threatening, environmental social catastropfor the right to dry clothes naturally and reveals how drying clothes became a life threatening, environmental social catastrophe.

The extreme amounts of water needed for growing cotton have resulted among other things in the drying up of the Aral Sea, one of the biggest environmental catastrophes of our time.»

Just in time for the 2102 apocalypse or an environmental catastrophe, a viral pandemic or solar flares, an economic collapse or a megaquake — a number of dating sites are popping up to make matches between doomsayers looking for love.

A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nazi, Turns Off His Power, Composts His Poop and, While Living In New York City, Generally Turns Into a Tree - Hugging Lunatic Who Tries to Save the Polar Bears and The Rest of the Planet from Environmental Catastrophe While Dragging His Baby Daughter and Prada - Wearing, Four Seasons - Loving Wife Along for the Ride.

Ten years later, it is clearer than ever that to address the greatest environmental threat of our time, we need to both reduce the risk of climate catastrophe and prepare for climate consequences.