Sentences with phrase «global forces opposed»

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As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

This shrug of resignation, so casually dismissing the downsides that science is unable to dismiss, seems to be the latest fashionable replacement for dismissal of the fact of global warming, or of its largely human origins, now that those positions are so opposed to the scientific consensus that they have been forced to the fringe.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.