Sentences with phrase «harming people and the environment»

The chemical building blocks that make plastics so versatile are the same components that might harm people and the environment.

Evidence is mounting that the chemical building blocks that make plastics so versatile are the same components that might harm people and the environment.

Not exact matches

Communications and travel make people aware of the harm done to workers, women and children and to the environment — in rich countries as well as poor.

has not only caused incredible harm to the environment, but respiratory disease, cancer and other ills, so - called «accidents» that murder and maim many people — and other domestic and wild animals, the poor things dismissed as «roadkill», and heinous wars.

The potential danger of non-organic coffee is harm to people and the environment at origin.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

«Bias against transgender people takes an enormous toll on their health through direct harm, lack of appropriate care and a hostile environment, and through transgender people's avoidance of the medical system as a result of discrimination and lack of respect,» Dr. Stroumsa says.

They also use a lot of power, run hot, have short lifetimes and contain toxic gasses that can pollute the environment and harm people.

Does not clearly call on people to eat less meat, both to protect their health and to reduce the harm that meat production does to the environment.

The main reason people decide to go organic when gardening is that they think commercial chemicals, including pesticides and fertilizers, may degrade soil quality, harm the environment and cause long - term damage to their personal health.

Some people are drawn to the plant - based lifestyle for the impact it makes on protecting the environment and some to avoid harming animals.

and handcrafted gifts (click here for gift ideas) created in harmony with the environment and without harm to animals or people.

Many people have already made the switch to clothing made out of cotton, which is biodegradable and doesn't harm the environment.

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, UncommonGoods is an independently - owned company that endeavors to feature unique designs and handcrafted gifts created in harmony with the environment and without harm to animals or people.

When people misguidedly remove cats to protect wildlife, they risk seriously harming both the environment and the species they aim to protect.

Ocean trash kills wildlife, harms the environment, and damages the quality of life for people all over the world.

Times have changed, and more and more people are becoming eco-conscious and doing their part in minimizing the harm to the environment while enjoying nature.

Few people on the planet have done more to harm the environment, to thwart the technology - only strategy for dealing with global warming, and to create the political polarization he now (laughably) decries than Newt Gingrich.

The four scientists will state that the anti-nuclear position of these environmental leaders is in fact causing unnecessary and severe harm to the environment and to the future of young people.

She also supports work to strengthen the capacity of national institutions to meet international standards and access finance, with an emphasis on ensuring that climate finance is used effectively and does not cause harm to people and the environment.

These fuels do more harm than good for people, the environment and the climate.

«In addition, respect for the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples is an internationally agreed safeguard to ensure REDD + does not harm people or the environment.»

However, certain energy practices, fuel sources and technologies place a heavy toll on human health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of - people, including those who are most vulnerable to harm.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

Researchers collected opinions between March 3 and March 18 via an online questionnaire, using a nationally representative sample of 1,174 American adults, both English and Spanish speaking... «Few people believe these preparations will harm the economy or eliminate jobs,» survey director Jon Krosnick, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said in a statement.

In the National Post today I argue that the extreme anti-coal stance of UN officials and green activists harms both people and the environment.

We are highly concerned about the grave harm that climate change is already causing, and will continue to cause, to people and communities as well as to the environment on which we all depend.

each person could consume More energy and still not harm the environment.

The major effect of cutting carbon dioxide emissions to zero, he said, would be «to kill and hurt poor people and greatly harm animals and the environment.»

Given the substantial evidence of the environmental and economic importance of encouraging the redevelopment and revitalization of such sites, will the benefit of the ERT's decisions outweigh their harm to the natural environment and the people of Ontario?

Furthermore, your place of employment may have created a hostile environment for minorities, women, or people of various ethnic or religious belief, and standing up for your employment rights may put you at odds with your fellow employees or even place you in potential physical harm from your employer and coworkers.

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.

Nature sometimes provides input through a normal and necessary environmental event, such as a flood or volcanic eruption, but human decisions have put people and property in harm's way without adequate measures to deal with the environment.

Drug education helps children and young people understand that all drugs, legal and illegal, have the potential to cause harm, and that the drug experience is because of many factors including the person, the drug and the environment.

The notion of «environmental harm» is widely defined, with people and culture being recognised as an integral part of «environment» under the legislation and, although it has not been judicially tested, could foreseeably encompass the emission of greenhouse gases and consequential climate change.

The court is guided by the best interests of the child, and considers: the relationship of the child with each parent and the ability and disposition of each parent to provide the child with love, affection and guidance, the ability and disposition of each parent to assure that the child receives adequate food, clothing, medical care, other material needs and a safe environment, the ability and disposition of each parent to meet the child's present and future developmental needs, the quality of the child's adjustment to the child's present housing, school and community and the potential effect of any change, the ability and disposition of each parent to foster a positive relationship and frequent and continuing contact with the other parent, including physical contact, except where contact will result in harm to the child or to a parent, the quality of the child's relationship with the primary care provider, if appropriate given the child's age and development, the relationship of the child with any other person who may significantly affect the child, the ability and disposition of the parents to communicate, cooperate with each other and make joint decisions concerning the children where parental rights and responsibilities are to be shared or divided, and any evidence of abuse.

While we continue to harm each other with lateral violence and while governments and industry operate within the native title system in a way that creates environments that foster lateral violence, there will be little progress in improving the indicators necessary to close the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the broader Australian community.