Sentences with phrase «looming environmental crises»

In addition to criminalizing personal drug use, cannabis prohibition deprives society of the industrial benefits of hemp at a time when we must make use of every ecologically responsible resource to provide materials and energy in the face of looming environmental crises,» said Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming environmental crisis.

To counter the looming environmental crisis, surprising and innovative ideas are already helping sports adapt

The Bankers (2011) symbolize denial: a resistance to acknowledge our looming environmental crisis, and the shortsighted actions of banking and government institutions.

Unfortunately, this dietary pattern also ignores the numerous health risks associated with eating meat, the ethical issues associated with an increased demand for food animals, and the looming environmental crisis that makes eating lower on the food chain an ecological imperative.

China seems to see the overall effect of Arctic climate change as more of a beckoning economic opportunity than a looming environmental crisis.

If the U.S. joins in, cap - and - trade could explode to a $ 3 trillion market... Yet Schapiro describes it as an «elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments, but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.»

Not exact matches

The professor began studying environmental behavior in the 1980s, when the 1970s» energy crisis loomed large in the public memory.

Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing factor in the looming food crisis.