Sentences with phrase «increasing ecological damage»

This study of course does not take away very different concerns related to stratospheric aerosol SRM geoengineering, like possible damage to the ozone layer [which in turn would be good news if you hate waiting for that spring tan] and the fact that allowing CO2 concentrations to keep rising presents other problems, like the necessity to never stop with the active process of SRM geoengineering, and increasing ecological damage caused by ocean acidification.

Not exact matches

However, the Coorong's recovery remains a priority because increasing salinity levels over summer present a risk of long - term ecological damage.

The Chinese government has also increased efforts to reduce the ecological damage of rare - earth mining.

The same increase in carbon dioxide that caused the ocean to become more acidic might also have sparked major ecological damage on land.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

Lowering taxes on labor and increasing taxes on environmentally damaging activities will require markets to tell the ecological truth.

The authors said the proposed policies «were premised on the flawed notion... that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change climate dramatically and thereby cause major ecological and economic damage.»