Sentences with phrase «human damage to the environment»

We can do this by adopting lifestyles and technologies that improve happiness (or life satisfaction) while reducing human damage to the environment.

Not exact matches

[13] This said, in animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material environment).

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

In his conclusion Jenkins becomes as eloquent as any conservationist lamenting human damage to the natural environment.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

Original sin has caused damage to the body - soul dynamic, thus also to the soul - God relationship and has disrupted the human person's relationship within the material and spiritual environment.

The National Toxicology Program calls is «reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen» and the Material Safety Data Sheet says «BHT should not be allowed to enter the environment, can cause liver damage, and is dangerous to aquatic organisms.»

The space environment poses significant risks to both humans and satellites due to harmful radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles that can easily penetrate typical shielding and damage electronics.

Their impact ranges from upsetting native ecosystems, to damaging the physical environment and even threatening human and animal health; hence the cost to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the expense of control and eradication programmes.

Humanity depends on nitrogen to fertilize croplands, but growing global use is damaging the environment and threatening human health.

If the world's population grows as predicted and human activity stays unchanged, science and technology may be powerless to prevent widespread poverty and irreversible damage to the environment.

«Our ultimate goal is to minimize the impact of pest damages on urban life with, at the same time, no — or minimal — negative impact on the environment, non-target organisms, and human health.»

Insect damage reduces yields in rice and causes farmers to use insecticides that are harmful to the environment and human health.

No «substantiated» evidence exists that genetically engineered crops have caused health problems in humans or damaged the environment, but it's too soon to be making broad statements, positive or negative, about laboratory - based manipulations of crop genomes, an elite panel of scientists concluded in a report Tuesday.

These dangerous chemicals are being sprayed on our food — every day — and cause massive collateral damage to the environment and human health.

«The hypothesis that higher intake of plant foods is beneficial to human health because this increases antioxidant defence against oxidative damage is logical in evolutionary terms, especially when we consider the relatively hypoxic environment in which humans may have evolved.

Just as all animals will adapt to their environment over many generations to increase the chances of species survival, so too will the individual human body try to prevent possible injury or damage by adapting to any physical activity that is demanding and performed on a regular basis.

The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain - old «human error» are much more likely to kill him first.

Eliminate (100 %) hazardous substances: Phase out harmful substances and chemicals and radioactive substances linked with persistent and / or irreversible damage to humans and the environment.

Though new to education, Human Performance Improvement is well established in evidence - based practices, including medicine, energy, construction, and other sectors in which the cost of human error or under - performance is high and can be damaging to workers, the environment, or the puHuman Performance Improvement is well established in evidence - based practices, including medicine, energy, construction, and other sectors in which the cost of human error or under - performance is high and can be damaging to workers, the environment, or the puhuman error or under - performance is high and can be damaging to workers, the environment, or the public.

These hazards may result from human error, equipment, or machine operation and may lead to injuries or damage to property or the environment

The Populate update tasks players with ensuring their eco-friendly environments are fit to accommodate animals and humans» unique demands without damaging the carefully balanced systems that make for a happy neighbourhood.

Again, I don't deny that humans can't do grievous damage to our environment, as technology advances; we may have the capability to literally crack the planet in two and to induce Novae in stars (even our own).

The bottom line from this experiment is that simply drawing a new coastline along a topographic contour is overly simplistic and greatly underestimates the damage to human infrastructure and the loss of coastal environments.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

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And a human does much more damage than an elephant to the environment.

Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate health effects, have jumped on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the human collateral damage.

If my guesses (hypothesises) are correct then we are about to go into a very long «Global Cooling» effect that will cause a major issue in our environment and the current ideas and computer models will lead us into a very wrong direction and cause serious damage to both agricultural and human development.

And don't forget the benefits arise from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to human - built environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise, and human - health impacts.

The Montreal Protocol is a multilateral environmental agreement that is successfully preventing massive damage to human health and the environment from excessive ultraviolet radiation from the sun by phasing out the production and consumption of substances that deplete the ozone layer.

The decision was supported by an extensive record of information supporting his determination that certain deepwater drilling posed a threat of serious, irreparable, or immediate harm or damage to the marine, coastal, and human environment.

The conversation of Loss and Damage must explicitly revolve around historical emissions and responsibility, be based on the legal obligation of a country to not cause harm to another's environment and, clearly, on human rights.

The damage to the environment and to human health is inexcusable, WCO says, especially when the power projects are not needed.

But, Havent we had ice ages and warmer temps in the past, much before humans could cause any damage to the planet's environment?

Therefore mitigating global warming will address both the synergistic harm that it wreaks in concert with the non-climate damage to the environment, and it will address the direct effect that it will have on species and ecosystem - an effect that, if warming is not properly addressed for a few more decades, will make all other human impacts pale by comparison.

The extraction and burning of fossil fuels and wood causes damage to, for instance, natural habitats and human environments.

Keeping says switching the argument to one about human rights and democracy simply deflects attention from the «huge damage» being inflicted by the oilsands on the environment, downstream communities and the atmosphere via greenhouse gases.

Its purpose is to assess which plastics are most damaging to human health and the environment.

According to Discovery News: «In a 2006 report, EPA officials stated that they investigated 86 complaints of damage to human health or the environment caused by «fossil - fuel - combustion waste management units» between 1994 and 2004.

The most devastating damage humans have done to the environment has arisen from the heedless burning of fossil fuels, a category in which New Yorkers are practically prehistoric.

The result is the Double Pyramid, which reveals an interesting fact: the most environmentally friendly foods are often the healthiest ones for human consumption, and many foods that are damaging to our bodies are also damaging to the environment.

The government and lobbying association CanWEA's (Canadian Wind Energy Association) assertion that the wind turbine industry operates safely and without damage to human health is false and must also be examined, since the reports of ill health given to the MOE (Environment) now number in the thousands.

The damage is being done by politically motivated think tanks that are trying to «balance» credible scientific evidence with fringe rhetorical arguments designed to deny that human changes to the environment are altering the global climate.

The damage is being done by politically motivated think tanks that are trying to «balance» dubious scientific evidence (as demonstrated on this blog) with fanatic rhetorical arguments designed to assert that human changes to the environment are causing catastrophic global climate changes.

-- a new offence of unauthorised acts in relation to a computer that result either directly, or indirectly, in serious damage in any country to the economy, environment, national security or human welfare, or create a significant risk of such things.

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.

Would increasing the sentence for damage to «the economy, environment, national security or human welfare» likely deter anyone who would not be deterred by the prospect of up to ten years in jail?