Sentences with phrase «of environmental»

Sin and guilt melt sway in a consideration of the environmental or hereditary factors that lay behind human wantonness.

Widespread fear about the long - term consequences of these environmental changes seems entirely justified.

The process starts with the multitude of environmental objects awaiting unification in a fresh perspective, moves through stages of partial integration, and concludes as a fully determinate synthesis, effected by a concrescence of feelings.

While exploiting the fear of environmental disaster, ecologists dismiss their opponents as short - sighted defenders of capitalist class interest.

It is an ideology seizing threads of environmental, social, racial, and economic justice, and interweaving them with strands of multiculturalism, gender discourse, gay rights, queer theory, post-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.

Rubin examines the origins of the environmental movement to analyze how environmental questions became everyday concerns for most Americans.

Like the creativity of a human artist, evolutionary creativity is a synthesis of environmental challenges with the available biological (or intellectual) means to respond to these challenges.

It consists of environmental conditions, institutional contexts, and action sequences.

When James Lee tried to blow up The Discovery Channel, his reasoning that of an Environmental Extremist did you call upon all environmentalists to embrace and repudiate.

If the Earth is God's creation and not some cosmic accident, shouldn't God's followers be at the forefront of environmental care initiatives?

While campaigning for the Republican nomination in the Iowa senatorial race, Joni Ernst had called for the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Peter Wierner of the Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo (The Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo) recently wrote to the Department of Environmental Conservation looking to ban hunting Bigfoot, which is just another reminder that our freedoms are always under assault and they necessitate constant vigilance.

«The list is long»,» as Sallie McFague notes of environmental threats, «and there is work for everyone to do.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

The population issue, which the Earth Charter Commission had always found difficult, has been recaptured by the controllers and emerged in sharper form than in the first draft: «A dramatic rise in population» is part of the environmental crisis, and «responsible reproduction» is enjoined.

Many years ago, I realized that God was the overlooked dimension of the environmental equation.

But they can feel remote from us: They knew so much less of environmental devastation, the growth of mega-cities, how technology has eroded our awareness of the natural world and its rhythms.

Thomas Sieger Derr, who teaches at Smith College, is the author of Environmental Ethics and Christian Humanism.

Every culture, a town, a club, an athletic group, police, farmers, musicians, prisoners all have a way of communicating because of the environmental factors of their daily lives.

Here we can not settle the question of what rightly or wrongly belongs within the purview of environmental ethics understood as a sub-discipline within philosophy.

In any event, I will assume the principle of environmental respect as I also assume the coincidence of maximizing human good and maximizing creativity as such.

Philip Joranson and Ken Butigan, the editors of Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition, a multi-authored theological study of the environmental crisis, speak of such inclusive care as «creation consciousness» (CE).

That popular college text sees Calvinism as the pump - primer for industrialized pillaging, and it lauds the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as the freethinking architects of environmental ethics.

Bilbro also makes a compelling argument that the presumed pioneers of environmental thought were not as revolutionary as their modern irreligious readers might assume.

Taylor creates sculptures out of environmental friendly materials and then sinks them in shallow, empty areas off tropical coastlines where they can act as artificial reefs.

He indicates that our bodies are actually composed of the earth's materials and of environmental gases, and that in this sense the earth is part of us.

But neither the science texts nor the standards address religious interpretations of nature or of the environmental crisis.

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

Indeed Eugene Hargrove, the editor of Environmental Ethics, points out strong parallels between Leopold and Whitehead, although Leopold seems to have arrived at his perspective independently of any reading of Whitehead.

11 See also George P. Cave, «Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life,» Environmental Ethics 4:3 (1982): 249 - 254; and Bruce V. Foltz, «On Heidegger and the interpretation of Environmental Crisis,» Environmental Ethics 6 (1984): 323 - 338,

For one, there are excellent works at the interface of environmental ethics and public policy, such as K. S. Schrader - Frechette's Nuclear Power and Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1981).

I appreciate what you have to say — especially this: «if we are not considering the effects of environmental degradation, we are working against the poor.

Recently he has reaffirmed this methodological decision: «bodily experience, not vision of environmental objects [should be] our initial sample of perception» (CSPM 80).

Environmental philosophy is a growing subdiscipline within Western philosophy, characterized by the assumption that traditional Western metaphysics and moral theory are inadequate to the solution of environmental problems and that in our age alternative, ecological world views and axiologies are needed.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

He conveys little sense of the sheer lunacy that lurks on the fringes, and not - so - fringes, of the environmental movement.

If being gay were the result of environmental factors, why are none of her older or younger siblings (of which she has 5) also gay?

Support of environmental organizations is declining.

He attended Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford universities, and his mother was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first female head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Once again they can only explain away by appeal to another principle of order: for example, the neo-Darwinian argument that life on earth only seems to be teleological «because of environmental and molecular constraints on the direction of change» (from the online Wikipedia entry for «orthogenesis»).

But the outcome of these interactions does in fact resolve into the vast odyssey of life which has shaped the many phases of environmental change on earth.

He says that the Christian view of bodily death is that it is entirely due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve, whereas we now know that death is a key driver of environmental adaptation in evolving life.

A combination of environmental factors and their own limitations kept any of the other files from doing the same thing.

The Stockholm Conference of 1972 stressed the paramount importance of environmental conservation.

More important but less common has been consideration of environmental matters when constructing church buildings.

Human rights holism must be read in the light of environmental and ecological justice because man can survive only under appropriate environment and ecological milieu whereunder sustainable development and growth with justice may be possible.

Principle 16, so necessary for immediate application, reads: «National authorities should endeavor to promote the internalization of environmental costs and the use of economic instruments, taking into account the approach that the polluter should, in principle, bear the cost of pollution, with due regard to the public interest and without distorting international trade and investment».

If we could count on corporations to think of profits over the longrun, such as fifty years, there would be many opportunities to show that their selfinterest coincided with some of the environmental needs.

Perhaps because we can sometimes recycle it, we think it's okay — or perhaps the reams of environmental legislation lead us to think the situation is taken care of?