Sentences with phrase «human exploitation»

I agree that there are other forms of human exploitation other than sex slavery.

In some respects it did worse than ignore, actually celebrating human exploitation of nature with no sense of limits.

Drawing on their own primary research, Hunt and Lipo argue that Easter Island's population did not collapse from human exploitation of the environment.

A rubbish heap in the middle of pristine tundra, that's the world's most northerly town; charts the history of human exploitation in the Russian Arctic

Ulrich Seidl's Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation.

War, poverty, violence, racial tension, and human exploitation continue to darken the scene.

Although human exploitation is often blamed, the role of natural population dynamics in the passenger pigeon's extinction remains unexplored.

Based on our results, we hypothesize that ecological conditions that dramatically reduced population size under natural conditions could have interacted with human exploitation in causing the passenger pigeon's rapid demise.

The rest were driven to extinction by direct human exploitation and habitat destruction.»

In Bigg's second exhibition with the gallery, A Step on the Sun, Bigg's multi-channel video installation shows miners extracting hardened sulfur at Indonesia's Ijen volcano; the video references natural beauty as a backdrop for human exploitation.

The right - hand panel reveals human exploitation at the hands of big business — a dubious «peace.

Human exploitation such as child labour and horrendous working conditions is addressed by only working with suppliers who «guarantee health and safety standards for their workers, do not hire child labour, and pay fair wages».

For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, soil erosion, acid rain, destruction of rainforests, ozone depletion - the list goes on.»

In fact, the agreement is unusual for protecting a huge area from human exploitation before people have had much chance to exploit it; before the last decade, scientists estimate, the doughnut hole was icebound for about 100,000 years.

Let us expand beyond the geological mountain system then and consider the Himalayas in the context of nested river basins and highlight the key human exploitations underway.

Through legislation, educational campaigns, letter - writing, articles, advertising, public service announcements, shelter outreach, and other methods, we aim to ensure that all captive parrots receive the best possible care and that both wild and captive parrots are safe from human exploitation and carelessness.

And global warming is not the only challenge to coral reefs, which are also threatened by human exploitation, pollution and increasing acidification of the surrounding seas, again as a consequence of ever higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The hub of human exploitation of the Rio Grande is the Elephant Butte reservoir near El Paso in Texas (about 300 km upstream of Presidio).

Jesus puts the command to love at the centre of the message of the Kingdom, and couples it with concrete judgments on forms of human exploitation, on the responsibilities of God's people in law courts, in marriage, in buying and selling, in religious duties.

This is only one sad vignette of the human exploitation, degradation and death which are rampant in Colombia and throughout Latin America.

Is there a way to think and act beyond the paradigm of human exploitation?

If they were to return to study the gospels again, they would find no evading of the issues of human exploitation, injustice and persecution, no avoidance of life's inequalities, injustices, evils and disasters.

In recent years, hundreds of companies have made commitments to eliminate deforestation and human exploitation from their agriculture and forestry supply chains.

Human exploitation of natural resources is a key driver of global biodiversity loss.

This data revolutionized entire disciplines, such as hydrology, allowing scientists to document the loss of groundwater due to human exploitation.

The discovery of this previously undisturbed Elephant grave site is unique in Britain — where only a handful of other elephant skeletons have been found and none of which have produced similar evidence of human exploitation.

Human exploitation of marine species and destruction of habitat have been spoiling coastal ecosystems since the birth of the Roman republic.

Here we use both genomic and ecological analyses to show that the passenger pigeon was not always super abundant, but experienced dramatic population fluctuations, which could increase its vulnerability to human exploitation.

«From that, we conclude that it's probably related to human exploitation of large - bodied animals.»

The Arcus Great Apes Fund - provides support for conservation efforts that promote the survival of the Great Apes in the wild and provides support for sanctuaries that offer safety and freedom from invasive research and other forms of human exploitation.

Intentional or not, the filmmakers give us a character who embodies Traffik's mission statement: beneath the comparably ridiculous lives led by so many Americans lies an undercurrent of human exploitation and misery that, once seen, can not be scrubbed from the soul.

When sea otters are removed from the ecosystem (for example, by human exploitation), urchin populations are released from predatory control and grow dramatically.

The human exploitation in places is just as bad — if not worse — then the animals.

This living museum has been relatively left undisturbed for 100 million years, spared from both environmental changes and human exploitation.

Xu Zhen: Installation, performance, and video artist Xu Zhen combines humor and irony in his works, offering critique of political and art - world systems of human exploitation.

It means Ingle & Rhode are tackling the three main problems in the jewellery industry: human exploitation, conflict (or blood) diamonds and environmental damage.

The world's wetlands too — often at risk from human exploitation — cover less than 6 % of the planet's land surface, but they hold the most carbon per hectare.

Undoing the damage climate change and human exploitation has done to Senegal's vast mangroves is proving controversial

On Monday at noon, Ritter - Sorononen will join over a hundred activists from St. Louis and around the country to march through downtown St. Louis in a creative direct action to spotlight Peabody Energy and Bankof America's records of environmental and human exploitation.