Sentences with phrase «from environmental catastrophe»

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.

* Online Premiere * When Zeke, a gifted saxophone player and rollerblader, makes a telepathic connection with an alien, he must decode their link in order to save the world from environmental catastrophe.

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The proposed 2,673 - kilometre line from Hardisty, Alta., to coastal Texas not only lays bare the causal relationship between American demand and what many consider an environmental catastrophe in Canada.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

An obvious difficulty is that there is no world government undergirded by a common set of life - fulfilling values and supported by the necessary force and administrative efficiency to save the world from atomic destruction, starvation, and environmental catastrophe.

«It can probably be done in a way that is responsible and will not lead to environmental catastrophes,» says Sax, who is helping organize a group with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to assess the idea.

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.

an ostensible horror movie that's really a larger parable of environmental catastrophe (among other things) from the «Black Swan» and «Noah» auteur Darren Aronofsky.

From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe.

The photograph is from her 2016 work Flint is Family, where Frazier spent five months with three generations of Flint women who suffer and still thrive as they face the water crisis in Flint — «the worst man - made environmental catastrophe in recent national memory.»

Appearing as sci - fi visions of the future, monochromatic, large - scale, black - and - white photographs from Goicolea's Almost Safe series display what appear to be the remains of a war or environmental catastrophe.

A video of a man coughing incessantly (another historical work, this time by Christian Boltanski from 1969) and films combining slapstick, slavery and environmental catastrophe add to the sombre mood of this seven - month, artistic state - of - the - union address.

Further to the comments by Heiko (# 6) on the economics of [climate change - related] environmental catastrophes, at least from an economist's perspective, but opposite my perspective on my own standard of living:

Tales of extreme climate and resulting environmental catastrophes from Russia to Pakistan haven't done it,» he warned.

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.»

It can not be underestimated how much the doubt sowed by supposed environmental journalists has distracted readers from the critical questions of how to deal with impending climate catastrophe.

The piece provided a candid assessment of our environmental predicament and, in doing so, delivered to readers something they rarely get from national media outlets: Real talk about the unfolding climate change catastrophe.

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 Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long - Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones