Sentences with phrase «of environmental collapse»

Potential sources of methane disaster, such as thawing permafrost, occur occasionally as alarmists and media perpetuate fears of environmental collapse.

This is proabably because the level of environmental collapse that occurs in a mass extinction leaves an impoversihed biosphere in its wake and time is needed for it to right itself.

«I suspect a fear of environmental collapse, of loss of control, is bound up with our interest in some of these films,» says Wheatley.

The pedestrian applicability of this point is obvious in this day of environmental collapse beneath the weight of technological exploitation.

Not exact matches

Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

This worsening of the environmental situation and acceleration of the movement toward ultimate collapse is not inevitable.

It climaxed in an expectation of final judgment that can not be identified with our fears of an end brought about by atomic war or environmental collapse.

Different government departments moving in different directions is not a new development, but the prospect of collapse in a policy area of such vital importance to our national energy, economic and environmental needs bears the hallmarks of incoherent government and now risks becoming a national scandal.

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A tunnel collapse at the site of Tonawanda Coke may result in increased risks for environmental toxins in the surrounding community, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York said today.

Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe - on - Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.

A recent example was the series of tremors of magnitudes 2.01 - 2.55 that occurred in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, three days before the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam owned by Samarco, resulting in the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history.

After a salt well collapsed in the town of Artesia in 2008, environmental engineers started probing whether similar wells in other towns may also be at risk.

While Antarctic ice shelves are in direct contact with both the atmosphere and the surrounding oceans, and thus subject to changes in environmental conditions, they also go through repeated internally - driven cycles of growth and collapse.

This warming has driven really profound environmental changes, including the collapse of Larsen A and B,» McGrath said.

«To balance funding between the backlog and climate adaptation, bridge managers will need robust data on collapse risk,» said lead author Madeleine M. Flint, an assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Eradicate the predators and we face what one expert calls ecological meltdown: a cascade of extinctions and environmental collapse — a world, as Quammen puts it, overrun by a «pestilence of nibblers, cropping the vegetation down to stubs.»

Dennis and Kemp's model indicates that any or all of the suspected environmental factors, alone or in combination, could lead to hive collapse by destabilizing a hive's adult bee population.

«If environmental factors are driving the population down, previously sustainable levels of fishing might suddenly drive a collapse,» he said.

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

They aim to improve the wellbeing of people by guiding sustainable development practices to help avoid social and environmental collapse.

They couple this information with environmental monitoring records to establish the health of its ecology and whether or not collapse is a risk.

But there are many other past societies that resolved their environmental problems in unpleasant ways — not of their choice — by widespread depopulation or collapse of central government has happened to the Anasazi, the Maya and the Easter Islanders.

«Approximately five years after the towers collapsed, we began seeing more and more sinusitis and that has continued unabated to this day,» said senior author Michael Weiden, MS, MD, associate professor of medicine and environmental medicine at New York University and a New York City Fire Department medical officer.

Geographer Jared Diamond's Collapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civiliCollapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civilicollapse of civilizations.

«In a lot of ways, for a long time our way of measuring whether a state was fragile or was going to collapse didn't really include core environmental factors and natural resource factors, like food and water,» said Femia, who is also the president and co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security.

«Because both processes are often not studied together, the «net» effects of warming on [carbon] storage in the tundra are poorly known,» said Rose Cory, an environmental sciences and engineering assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-author of the permafrost collapse study.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond; Viking, $ 29.95 Greenland Vikings, Easter Islanders, ancient Maya, and the Anasazi were so careless of environmental resources that they committed cultural — and often literal — suicide, writes Diamond, who contends that we moderns are doing the same on a planetwide scale.

In an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is global.

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Spanning most of the Northern Hemisphere, we suggest that this cold phase be considered as an additional environmental factor contributing to the establishment of the Justinian plague7, 8, transformation of the eastern Roman Empire and collapse of the Sasanian Empire1, 2,5, movements out of the Asian steppe and Arabian Peninsula8, 11,12, spread of Slavic - speaking peoples9, 10 and political upheavals in China13.

It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

Quaternary scientists can use micro-organisms preserved in marine muds and onshore in lakes [25 - 27] to reconstruct past temperatures, ocean currents, rates of environmental change [28] and previous ice shelf collapses [29 - 31].

As for the earlier study on carbon and ultraviolet light, environmental scientist Rose Cory, of the University of North Carolina, focused on sites in Alaska where melting permafrost has caused the soil to collapse into sinkholes or landslides.

No doubt environmental changes have some effect on the rate of collapse, but do they not collapse at all when the environment is steady?

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Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs), facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic - minded Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse.

Scorched Earth takes place amidst a planet that suffered an environmental collapse, the air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

A collapse of civilization is possible through nuclear weapons, and through loss of vital environmental resources.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storEnvironmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storenvironmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

The dual meaning of «resolution,» as both coming - into - view and overcoming conflict, defines a wide range of artistic responses to the global shifts in society and culture — world wars, disasters, financial collapse, environmental degradation, and violations of human rights.

We are already facing widespread economic collapse, environmental ruin, and tragic civil wars as a result of such nineteenth - century legacies.

Rothschild's pavilion proposal will explore notions of political precarity and environmental shifts, forming an immersive piece that will invite the audience to consider how political change can be effected — «I want to create a situation that suggests multiple sculptural possibilities for rearrangement and reordering in which it becomes difficult to distinguish renewal from collapse» Rothschild commented.

In assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborations.

In the style of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid creatures from a confluence of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.

Collapse of Vision combines the perspectives of four artists whose work each uniquely addresses environmental, social and behavioral issues.

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.