Sentences with phrase «need for environmentalists»

By not doing as much as the science suggests we need, they've demonstrated the need for environmentalists to also look elsewhere for climate leadership.

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In his April letter for the fund - raiser the next month, he told employees, «America needs business and job creation, not the ruthless destruction that we are seeing from Barack Obama and his Democrats supporters, whom are Hollywood characters, liberal elitists, radical environmentalists, unionists, and Americans who do not want to work.»

For some time now environmentalists have been calling attention to the way the growing economy is straining the limits of the environment to supply our needs.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

The Senators and environmentalists, residents and local elected leaders, are challenging whether FERC's findings meet the region's energy needs and account for the pipeline's environmental impact.

In addition to DARPA environmentalists, biosafety experts and leading gene drive researchers say a new approach to mitigation and control is needed for the technology to advance safely.

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Panel, says the cuts are needed to limit temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, an amount seen by the EU, some other nations and many environmentalists as a threshold for «dangerous» climate change.

But attorneys for Fund for Animals and local environmentalists say the effort, however needed, should not be done at the expense of other birds and wildlife.

It is central however to the superstitious and fearful who need to demonize any opposition to their nonsensical beliefs, including the unadorned and irrefutable truth; in this case recasting the responsible and mature concern for the health of the physical world that's the real «belief» motivating most «environmentalists», as «pagan» «nature worship».

The Steelworkers became very involved in supporting the environmentalists and both groups realized the need for a sustainable economy in the rural NW.

In this report, for example, Crompton argues that environmentalists need to do more to challenge the individualistic worldview in their campaign work.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

«Environmentalists Giving Away Earth Day Condoms to Combat Overpopulation --» We need people across the country to help distribute 44,000 Endangered Species Condoms in time for Earth Day.

Hence the need for Supporters of Nuclear Energy, which is led by Baroness Thatcher's terrier - like press spokesman, former consultant for British Nuclear Fuels and self - confessed enemy of environmentalists, Bernard Ingham.

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

Big Oil has this public image of being an industry for fearless, no - nonsense manly men who aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty or braving the environmentalists» wrath in order to do their ugly but important work supplying the world with much - needed energy.

His work is a much needed kick in the pants for policymakers, grassroots environmentalists, and the public to induce us to develop effective motivational tools to help us take action to face the reality of climate change before it's too late.»

The discussion was about the view often expressed by environmentalists that there is no need for any further scientific debate.

(As one environmentalist says to another, explaining the need for faked lightning and tidal waves, «Species extinction from global warming — nobody gives a shit.»)

For example, environmentalists need to confirm the details of an unprecedented «regulatory coherence» chapter of the TPP.

Far too often the interests of workers and environmentalists have been pitched against each other, when fundamentally we share the need for a liveable planet and societies based on environmental, social and economic justice.

Actually, Toyota would make far more money by continuing business as usual, since hybrids account for less than three percent of Toyota's sales... Since committed environmentalists believe that we need more trains and buses, and far fewer cars, Toyota, in giving money to the Suzuki Foundation, is actualy investing in a nonprofit that works against their business interests.

One must assume this is exactly what is needed for the media and environmentalists to scare everyone.

He is arrested over and over for protesting as a environmentalist, he is biased and needs to step down and work on the science to prove his side, not manipulate the data to his belief.

You don't need to be an environmentalist to believe in «universal healthcare», or for social cohesion, for instance.

CCS doesn't need to be the long - term climate solution of choice for environmentalists, but efforts like Petra Nova can be commended by all for advancing technology that will be extremely valuable in the fight to solve the climate challenge.

Because the environmentalists needed a cute, fluffy white poster - child for their «the animals are dying and it's all our fault» campaign, and the snail darter and the California delta smelt just didn't cut it.

As environmentalists have suggested, these are some of the very features needed for economic and environmental sustainability.

As the temperature dropped and rain began to fall, the group retired to the porch of a neighboring home for a short Q&A; session, with local environmentalist Filiz Telek, one of the event organizers and the moderator of the Permakultur Istanbul online discussion group, translating Read's comments into Turkish as needed.

The words of the great David Foster Wallace in the poignant «Consider the Lobster» (a must read for environmentalists) are brutal, but make quite a point, one that I find myself dealing with every time I travel or every time I need to write about so - called «sustainable tourism.»

Environmentalists feel that the government has to do more: «The government needs to give incentives for using alternatives.

Argentinean architect Carlos Levinton is a veteran environmentalist that dedicated a lot of time developing solutions for those in need.

Our oceans need fixing, and Aotearoa (the Māori name for New Zealand) is ready to play its part, says environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate Tina Ngata.

Meanwhile, the «ecomodernists» behind the manifesto — a cadre of environmentalists, many of whom are associated with the Breakthrough Institute, a center - left think tank — have faced accusations of apostasy from their liberal and environmentalist brethren for endorsing nuclear power, criticizing the idea that we can live in harmony with nature, and generally rejecting the ecological orthodoxy that we need limits on growth.

Environmentalists, and environmental policy - makers fail time after time after time, and, it seems, they need to invent an enemy on whom they can lay the blame for their failure.