Sentences with phrase «of ecological destruction»

''... Climate Justice insists that communities have the right to be free from climate change, its related impacts and other forms of ecological destruction.

Immersed in the gloom and doom of ecological destruction, environmentalists can find strength in nature's capacity to be resilient and abundant if we give her a chance.»

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

From the point of view of ecologism, paying a little more for goods, and having a smaller selection, would be a small price to pay for the reduced level of ecological destruction.

It is part of a much larger pattern of abuse and exploitation, of the earth and of people, which has occurred in South and Central America, and which is itself part of an age - old historical pattern of ecological destruction.

Not exact matches

Some treatments attempting to raise consciousness on the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that will occur after such an event.

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?

It involves a common movement into a technological culture but it also entails correcting the inhumanities like State totalitarianism, increasing impoverishment and marginalisation of the majority of the people, destruction of the ecological basis of life and above all the general mechanization of human life already brought about by the misdirected technological advance.

Given the range of pressing moral issues that Küng takes up (including war genocide and ecological destruction), I would not make so much of this issue except for two things.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

An ecological theologian is so revolted morally by this prospect of wholesale destruction of other living things that the question of possibility seems almost irrelevant.

The shadows cast a few years ago by the threat of impending atomic destruction have lightened somewhat, only to be replaced in popular attention by an awareness of ecological danger and the energy crisis.

Cobb thinks the pursuit of continued economic growth within an integrated, liberalizing, market - based global economy will lead to increased social injustice and ecological destruction.

Also, as there is an organic link between destruction of environment and socio - economic and political injustice, even though all are affected by the ecological crisis, the life of the poor and marginalized is further impoverished by it.

Some attempts to raise consciousness about the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that can occur.

But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.

Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality, human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of human community are called for.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

We have no more right to suppose that our age of threatened nuclear winter or ecological destruction is closer to the end than the first - century Christians had to follow false prophets during the Jewish revolt.

«No one wants to see the wanton destruction of these animals, but to ignore the problems — not only tick - borne diseases, but ecological devastation and the inevitable clash between vehicles and deer — would be irresponsible.»

Major obstacles include religious fundamentalism, which not only triggers conflicts but also contributes to the suppression of women; global warming, which might produce ecological crises that spur social unrest and violence; overpopulation, particularly when it produces a surplus of unmarried, unemployed young men; and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Our finding is broadly consistent with recent estimates for placental mammals -LSB-(100), but see SM12 (101)-RSB- and thus supports the hypothesis that the K - Pg transition was associated with a rapid species radiation caused by a release of ecological niches following the environmental destruction and species extinctions linked to an asteroid impact (2, 4, 5, 102).

Aside from the obvious fact that there could hardly be a worse approach to climate change, it certainly won't help address the equally important ecological destruction that is a result of human overshoot — habitat destruction, ocean acidification, over-fishing, logging, pollution, etc..

Over time, the Camerons» environmentalism — which features heavily in the ecological destruction narrative of Avatar — has become more and more centered around food.

It's up to players to find the optimal winning combination of industries and ecological disasters that will ultimately lead to the destruction of Earth, before positive forces, their opponent in the game, can find the solutions to carbon emissions.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

Conceived in the 1970s, these works bore a critical response to and refusal of both the increasing commodification and institutionalization of art and the rampant destruction of the ecological environment.

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) integrates practices of poetry, performance, Conceptualism, and textile craft in response to pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.

He is best known for large scale abstractions that express concerns about the destruction of the global ecological balance — from painterly musings on the destruction of the Mesoamerican Olmec, Maya...

From chariots of the gods to profane vehicles of male vanity and ecological destruction.

The multidisciplinary Chilean artist's work addresses critical issues of the modern era — ecological destruction, feminism, human rights, and cultural homogenization — through her genre - bending projects uniting poetry, performance, painting, and site - specific installations that span more than 40 years.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

The problems are: Lack of a constructive, earth nurturing moral outlook, ideology that encourages expanding capitalist economies that do not factor ecological capital or its destruction into their bottom line, greed as a way of life, corporate imperatives and power, intentionally misinformed or ignorant public (especially in the United States and China), inertia, rampant bad design in energy generation, housing, transportation, community planning, consumer products and packaging and materials cycling, etc..

Serious misjudgement is possible in both direction, i.e. in allowing for a rapid destruction of our ecological environment as well in introducing policies that block many positive paths of development in a failed quest for better future environment.

If the fashion were to worry about pollution, ecological destruction or plundering natural resources in the third world, the climate change lobby would be out of business.

But as it becomes increasingly clear that the world's political institutions are unwilling and unable to effectively address the climate crisis, many activists, including Pope Francis himself, are questioning the underlying economic forces that are perpetuating the ecological destruction of the planet.

Meanwhile, mounting evidence of unparalleled ecological destruction in lands formerly under communist rule has finally begun to persuade even some environmentalists that too much government is as bad for nature as it is harmful to man.3

It evolved millions of years ago to exploit an ecological niche, and it has caused large outbreaks of destruction in the past — but, so far as we know, none as large as this one.

The harms from the dangerous behavior are not mere inconveniences but potentially catastrophic destruction of life and ecological system on which life depends;

«A major hurricane here could bring economic and ecological disaster,» they wrote, including flood damage, destruction of entire low - lying neighborhoods, devastation to Galveston, and a massive disruption of our country's oil and shipping industries:

Based on that up - to - date scientific understanding of the permanent harm that would result from the destruction and burial of six miles of vital headwater streams, the downstream contamination and resulting ecological damage, and the leveling of 2,000 acres of natural mountaintop, EPA issued a final veto determination in January 2011.

Minimizing the impact of industry might slow down ecological destruction; an efficient use of resources might keep the engines of commerce running a few more years.

«Of course, even if POSCO Daewoo stops clearing today, it has a huge legacy of deforestation, ecological destruction, and human rights abuse that it must restore and remedy,» she saiOf course, even if POSCO Daewoo stops clearing today, it has a huge legacy of deforestation, ecological destruction, and human rights abuse that it must restore and remedy,» she saiof deforestation, ecological destruction, and human rights abuse that it must restore and remedy,» she said.

Compelling Choices by Joseph C. Hough Texts: Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20 and Luke 4:16 - 21 In the face of immense ecological destruction and human poverty, Hough urges listeners to «choose life» for the entire planet.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

Even without the new factor of a changing climate, it is time to acknowledge that California is in permanent long - term shortage: even in a «normal» rainfall year more water is now demanded and used than nature provides, leading to growing political conflict, unsustainable groundwater overdraft, and ecological destruction of the state's rivers, streams, and wetlands.

At the risk of descending ever further into off - topic weirdness, here's an article about the environmental message of the aliens, also mentioning «intelligences beyond the material realm», «ecological destruction on a scale that threatens the survival of the Earth's living systems» and the fossil fuel lobby.

In light of these inexplicable new values, some ecological thinkers have resigned themselves to the continued destruction of nature by old and new technologies.

Her words echoed those written in Pope Francis's landmark Encyclical released on June 18, which condemned ecological destruction and the impact of global warming on the world's poorest people, adding that the Pontiff linked the issues of both economic and climate justice «in a way that this divestment movement does.»

A month after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent ecological destruction, despite efforts by BP to slow the flow of oil (and information about just how much is gushing into the Gulf), things don't really seem to be improving that much.