Sentences with phrase «more environmental harm»

However, such plants cause more environmental harm and health issues due to air pollution, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions.

Across the country, Sierra Club activists have been raising their voices about a «free trade» scheme that would do more environmental harm than help if it's pushed through the finish line as - is.

The only biofuels that don't do more environmental harm than good derive from agricultural wastes like manure and cellulose.

More farming, however, usually means more environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertilizer.

Not exact matches

For instance, as technological innovations become more able to create economic benefits while minimizing, if not eliminating, environmental harm, the integrated web of global economic relationships may help to hasten the process of global «greening.»

The plan to drill fire suppression wells would not harm the local ecosystem, environmental groups said, though they added that conducting more «controlled burns» more often would help prevent future fires from getting out of control.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

Environmental groups argued that the logging wouldn't defeat the beetle and would cause more harm than good.

In addition, she sends some of the venom she purchases — which, due to the cost of the no - harm extraction method she uses, she says is «more expensive than gold» — to Eva Sapi, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the University of New Haven, who studies Lyme disease.

In a study done by Environmental Working Group in 2012, it was found that newborn babies had over 200 different chemicals in them including: Mercury — harms brain development and function Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons — linked to cancer Polybrominated dibenzodioxins and furans — toxic to endocrine system Perfluorinated chemicals — linked to cancer,... Read More»

The synthetics they're made from cause environmental harm and are more prone to greenwashing (more on that here).

All of the above and more while tackling the effects of climate change, pollution and other environmental factors that can harm and do harm people's health, livelihoods and lives.

The Associated Press reports that a coalition of more than 60 environmental groups issued a joint statement saying that opening U.S. waters to oil and gas exploration threatens marine life and coastal communities with «severe and unacceptable harm.»

Peter directs the sustainable food and farming program, developing strategies to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms from production of our food and to promote a more environmentally sound agricultural system.

The report by environmental advocacy group the Climate Council said the government needed to do more to reduce carbon emissions harming Australia's beaches, national parks and the Great Barrier Reef.

(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...

They argue that by clinging to an ideology formed more than 40 years ago, the traditional green lobby has failed in its aims and is ultimately harming its own environmental cause.

Together with commercial operators they plan to go ahead with large - scale and more permanent ocean fertilization experiments and note that potential negative environmental consequences must be balanced against the harm

Stripped of the jargon, the paper uses an MIT model, with all the bells and whistles, to conclude that vehicle fuel efficiency standards are an arbitrary, blunt instrument that harm consumers far more than is necessary to achieve a given environmental objective.

(p. 5) However, it might be somewhat more startling to learn that he considers that the law of private property not only contributes to our environmental problems it actually «promotes environmental harm.»

That emotional harm would more than offset any environmental advantages associated with living in the mother's home and attending school nearby.