Sentences with phrase «growing environmental catastrophe»

I mean, that sounds silly to me, and I don't think any serious scientist would play those sort of word games in the face of the growing environmental catastrophe that clearly awaits us if we continue to do nothing to rein in CO2 output.

Five weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the island appears to be in the midst of a growing environmental catastrophe.

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«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 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.»