Sentences with phrase «of ecological concerns»

Local opponents of Wildflower and Blue Sky regarded the Board's rejection of the met tower applications as a vindication of their ecological concerns.

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Nevertheless, one may find four major areas of debates to which KC has offered new depth of meanings: 1) Re-definition of mission, 2) Theological and ethical articulation of ecological concerns, 3) Faith response to caste and, communalism, and 4) Ethics and economics with special attention to the question of poverty and development.

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Third is the whole problem of finding a fundamental imagery or root - metaphor that can embody both ecological and political concerns.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

How does the Christian concern for a higher education that prevents the mechanization of life and marginalisation of the weaker people and the destruction of the ecological basis of life by technocracy find expression?

After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»

When I finally exposed myself to the literature that dealt with the ecological crisis, its emotional impact did not have to do only with my concern for the future of human beings.

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

Though the phrase integrity of creation was clearly intended to encourage ecological responsibility and a concern for the well - being of life, its exact definition remained unclear.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

Therefore Kaufman says that we have to be constantly criticizing and reformulating our religious symbols in the light of the contribution they make to human flourishing and (remembering ecological concerns) the flourishing of the universe in all its parts.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

These countries see Western environmentalism as a form of neocolonialism, and the fear that ecological concerns will be used to keep the poorer nations in permanent subordination leaps off the pages of UN documents.

Those oriented to ecological concerns, of course, view matters quite differently.

l) the disastrous ecological question is due to present day human regarding themselves as God and thinking they can use nature as they wish, without concern for the future of nature and of humanity.

Ecological theology will not limit its concern for the environment to its role in the sustaining of human societies.

all these are, partially or completely, concerned with the ecological problems of the human species.

If we are serious about the plight of the poor, the unity of ecological and distributional concerns is thrust upon us.

It is interesting to note in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

No effort to help the poor has integrity apart from ecological concerns; conversely, it makes little sense to talk of ecology apart from justice when the plight of the poor has become a major contributing factor to the environmental crisis.

The ecological basis of life, rights of people and persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and human's organic relation to nature.

The final chapters are concerned with the implications of this postmodern ecological worldview for society today.

Those concerned with the suffering of individual animals fail to appreciate ecological egalitarianism precisely because they take seriously the subjective experience of animals.

The isolation of the ecological commitment from the concerns of their partners in the larger coalition can lead to formulating programs in ways that are highly divisive (see Sessions's open letter to Sierra Magazine).

Any energy policy which tries to play one area of concern against the other can not be encompassed in an ethic of ecological justice.

Such high stakes force those concerned for ecological justice to seek the development and use of lower - risk technologies such as solar energy.

It grew out of concern by staff of the American Baptist Convention that ecological concerns not be emphasized at the expense of justice nor justice at the expense of ecology.

They come from persons influenced by ecological concerns, from feminists, from those influenced by Eastern forms of thought, by those interested in parapsychology, and by those who reflect on the implications of recent developments in physics.

K.C. Abraham points out that «Globalization has become a vehicle of cultural invasion», leading to «a mono - culture that suppresses economic, ecological and cultural diversity, and has a tendency to accept efficiency and productivity without concern for justice and compassion towards people».6

The focus is often ecological, but not to the exclusion of human concerns.

We have spoken of the power of religious naturalism to extend our moral concern to care for the totality of ecological communities, to help us develop and nurture a land, water, and sky ethic.

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While RA certification is not wholly concerned with shade or biodiversity, the variation in these farms highlight the differences in RA ecological criteria and that of Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification.

The Kona ecological and economic concerns were discussed at meetings hosted by the CEC «Workshop of Experts on production» in Oaxaca in 2000 that results for Oaxaca Declaration.

Something interesting to those who are concerned about the ecological impact of their foods is the fact that whey is actually a cheese - byproduct.

In part, the clash pits residents concerned about preserving recreational space at a neighborhood park against Park District officials with a broader ecological interest in improving the quality of area waters and contributing to flood - control efforts.

Yet they embody a coherent school of design — a common form of organization that brings the living concerns of the human and ecological communities into the world of property rights and economic power.

[114] More political concerns were raised when Vladimir Putin stated that the ecological safety of the pipeline project will be ensured by using the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy.

Human rights defenders in this region are actively engaged in on - going research, monitoring, documentation and advocacy addressing a range of ecological, cultural, social and political concerns.

Because large animals play an important role in the ocean food web, «a threat profile focused on the largest species is particularly concerning from an ecological perspective,» said lead author Jonathan Payne, an associate professor in the school of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

She was recognized in 2014 with the EcoService Award from the Ecological Society of America and the Union of Concerned Scientists, honoring her contributions to ecology outreach.

The anti-GM backlash in China is driven in part by Greenpeace and scientists who are raising long - standing concerns about possible ecological and health effects of transgenic crops.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

Earlier Friday, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the tone was one of mitigating environmental risks to preserve financial opportunities, rather than studying ecological concerns outright.

Co-author Monica Granados of McGill University says that when she gave a talk about the findings to a standing - room - only crowd this month at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Sacramento, California, the audience was concerned about the drop.

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

The lure of the rare has another ecological implication that doesn't get talked about, one that particularly concerns us.