Sentences with phrase «of environmental crisis»

The paper informs Uriarte was called by the Deputies Chamber to speak about the effects of the environmental crisis and her responsibility in it, and also said that a group of deputies are planning to present an appeal against her.

Being a bold and fearless voice — The severity of our environmental crisis demands that we be bold in what we fight for and what we fight against.

The severity of our environmental crisis demands that we be bold in what we fight for and what we fight against.

But the unquestioned assumptions — that economic growth is an end in itself, that a natural area is «wasted» until a profit - oriented development comes along, that all environmental costs are «externalities» that need not enter the economic paradigm — are the causes of the environmental crisis.

It was Gorbachev who stated in 1996 that the «threat of environmental crisis will be the «international disaster key» that will unlock the New World Order.»

A fictional account of an environmental crisis shines a light on problems in the Chesapeake Bay.

In the face of environmental crisis, it has helped to nurture hundreds of new companies pursuing both alternative energy sources and new green technologies.

Whether we cycle, recycle, buy local, or write academic papers on the meaning of the environmental crisis, we are already repositioned through these acts and newly acquired habits in a joint effort and in trends of communal change.

The prospect did occur to me as I left a recent event at the XII Baltic Triennial, a cerebral, aesthetically arid show calling attention to our moment of environmental crisis, among other themes.

In times of environmental crisis, a blueprint for a federal response, called the National Contingency Plan, entitles the EPA to oversee safety and cleanup efforts — but it does not obligate the EPA to do so.

In other words, the shift to a service economy will not simply allow countries to grow out of the environmental crisis of global warming.

This often - reprinted essay attributed the greater part of the environmental crisis to the triumph of technology in the «Christian West.»

If the rationalist approach is the cause of the environmental crisis, should it be discarded in favor of the second?

Even though it may not be well represented in the pews of American churches, an evolutionary sacramentalist cosmology may offer the richest conceptual resources for meeting the demands of the environmental crisis.

At the core of the environmental crisis is a great divide between mind and body, between head and heart, between human and nature.

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.

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).

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

The awareness of the pervasiveness and finality of the environmental crisis is now more widely shared.

«Fear of environmental crises — whether real or not — is expected to lead to compliance.»

Jacques Cousteau, conservationist (lived 1910 — 1997) «We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises — exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources.

Not exact matches

He talked at length about business's responsibility to be aware of its affect on the planet and shared the Patagonia mission statement to «build the best product, do no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»

Remember back to the financial crisis, when President Obama launched a program to create jobs through green innovation, a kind of environmental New Deal?

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

She has deep experience in regulatory compliance, and crisis prevention and management, including the transportation of dangerous goods by all means of transportation, the defence of environmental litigation, and the avoidance and defence of environmental related prosecutions.

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

It has been the boast of environmental orthodoxy that «science» is a monolith «settled» on the coming crisis if humanity does not change its ways, or in the jargon, «reduce its carbon footprint.»

The environmental crisis is a hard fact that we all must acknowledge, however disdainful we may be of ecological doom - sayers or countercultural faddists, however politically radical we may consider ourselves.

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

Margaret Mead has observed that parents of today's youth are parents of the first generation that has grown up entirely in the new world that emerged between 1940 and 1960 — the world of the bomb, the population explosion, the environmental crisis, and the planet - spanning communication grid.

Largely under pressure from one of my sons, Cliff, I was awakened to the environmental crisis.

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).

Every American is implicated in the environmental crisis — there are plenty of other indulgences we could point at in our own lives, from living in oversized houses to boarding jets on a whim.

The rationale for the Charter is apocalyptic: «The prevailing development patterns in both the South and the North are leading the Planet to an economic, social, and environmental crisis which threatens the existence of human life and the integrity of Nature.»

Given, the unsoundness of the theory that blames Christianity for the environmental crisis, it is surprising that it has gained such remarkable currency.

Dualistic deposits in Christian theology are themselves partly responsible for the feeling of cosmic homelessness that underlies our present environmental crisis.

A cosmic interpretation of revelation is important today not only because of our need to address the question of purpose in the universe, but also because our globe is now threatened by an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

It has often been argued that an excessive anthropocentrism (overemphasis on the human dimension of our world) is the main source of our current environmental crisis.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

Moreover, this constant process is carried out as Christians wrestle self - consciously with problems of importance, such as the environmental crisis, hunger, poverty, nuclear weapons capable of omnicide, sexism, racism, classism, and anti-Judaism.

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.

Grace is the primary source of all activity and creativity, and Pope Francis pointedly notes that technical solutions to the environmental crisis are powerless without a person's openness to God's grace (200).

Nonetheless, ordinary Catholics within a state of grace are heirs to the Kingdom of God, and the graced imagination's new ideas and solutions to difficult problems, are evident in the daily course of events that occur in school, work, families or, as Pope Francis hopes, creative solutions to the environmental crises.

Simplicity is kind of a double response — both to the environmental crisis and to the feeling that life has become chaotic and out of control.

However, placing the full blame for the environmental crisis on the altar of the Christian Way is far too simplistic.

Yet there is another aspect of this parallel which I feel is crucial to understanding the environmental crisis we face today.

What relevance might revelation have to the new flurry of issues raised by the environmental crisis?

The contemporary environmental crisis is closely connected to inherited ways of thinking that have fostered a feeling in us that we are not really at home in the universe.