Sentences with phrase «global environmental devastation»

Not exact matches

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

Sony Global Imaging Ambassadors A worldwide program, giving photographers from around the world the tools to document important stories of fame, fashion, culture, sportsmanship, war, human devastation, celebration and environmental shifts.

The organization focuses on environmental devastation, global food injustices, and deficits in democracy.

Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.

Can we realize that the «sacrifice» of giving up meat so that our starving brothers and sisters may be fed, so that farmers» lands may be irrigated, so that trees may continue to grow in the Amazon, so that the rate of global warming and environmental devastation may be checked, so that Mother Earth may continue to have fertile land for growing crops, may we realize that this is a natural choice to be made and not an excruciating sacrifice?

Continued Birdsall, «Because the problem of global warming and massive environmental devastation appears to be lingering, however, the time may be right for the federal government to consider dealing with it again in some way.»