Sentences with phrase «of environmental devastation»

Letting corporations get rich off of environmental devastation will make Obama's climate rhetoric look like the worst kind of greenwashing.

Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to address urgent issues of environmental devastation as they affect the indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

Yet for at least a decade, the green community has become more and more aware of the environmental devastation wrought by meat production.

During his lifetime Siqueiros produced 150 landscape paintings, dynamic visions of futuristic cities and allegories of environmental devastation charged with the emotional vehemence that has come to characterize his better - known public works.

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

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.

Capitalism, in truth, is pretty ambiguous as a cause of environmental devastation.

Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford warned that «letting corporations get rich off of environmental devastation will make Obama's climate rhetoric look like the worst kind of greenwashing.»

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[10] During the past ten or so years — primarily, I think, in the wake of environmental awareness — Western peoples have become newly conscious of the devastations humanity is capable of when it thinks itself accountable to nothing beyond itself.

About the incomprehensible environmental devastation and the stark contrast between the haves and the have - nots and the adverse impacts of globalization that will make you want to come home and sell everything you own..

Devastation and Renewal An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region.

This form of contamination can even result in environmental crises, such as devastation to the aquatic population and red - tide blooms, Yakovlev notes.

And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

DISPATCHES FROM THE GULF 2: Research * Innovation * Discovery — Dir: Hal Weiner Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastation.

Sony Global Imaging Ambassadors A worldwide program, giving photographers from around the world the tools to document important stories of fame, fashion, culture, sportsmanship, war, human devastation, celebration and environmental shifts.

«Damage Control» promises to chart this obsession with destruction, addressing culture's confrontation with the devastation of World War II and the rise of unprecedented technological, economic, and environmental risks.

A select group of artists have contributed works to this group show exploring the «history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art - making from prehistory to the present,» including FABRICE MONTEIRO's «The Prophecy,» series of photographs about the environmental devastation of his native Senegal (above, «Untitled # 1,» 2013).

In her recent paintings, Julie Heffernan confronts environmental devastation ever more trenchantly while also conjuring a post-utoptian vision of the future.

On the topic of general ignorance, most Americans don't begin to grasp how deeply their consumption habits — house size, commuting habits, reliance on trucked - in food, air conditioning — contribute to environmental devastation and economic instability in the world at large.

The environmental devastation caused by manufacturing is horrific, from the chromium contamination of vast regions of northern India by tanneries, to the brimming landfill sites of America, where 11 million tons of clothes are thrown away annually, left to rot and produce methane gas.

SciDevnet: The large - scale devastation and deaths caused by landslides and floods in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have highlighted gaps in India's disaster preparedness, as well as a worrying neglect of environmental concerns in hilly areas.

These critics viciously attack Alberta and the oil sands industry — accusing them of «blood oil,» environmental devastation and unethical practices.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

The only crime he and his colleagues had committed was to demand sound environmental practices and to ask for compensation for the devastation of Ogoni territories.

Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.

2008 Goldman Prize winner Marina Rikhvanova was awarded the Prize for her work to protect Siberia's Lake Baikal, one of the world's most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by Russia's polluting petroleum and nuclear industries.

Recognizing the damage done, a rising chorus of water managers and politicians from both parties is making a new argument for new dams: They will help repair the environmental devastation caused by the old dams.

The scale of natural disasters has also increased because of deforestation, environmental degradation, urbanization, and intensified climate variables.20 The distinctive health, behavioral, and psychosocial needs of children subject them to unique risks from these events.21 Extreme weather events place children at risk for injury, 22 loss of or separation from caregivers, 21 exposure to infectious diseases, 23 and a uniquely high risk of mental health consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and adjustment disorder.24 Disasters can cause irrevocable harm to children through devastation of their homes, schools, and neighborhoods, all of which contribute to their physiologic and cognitive development.25

As Russia expanded its petroleum and nuclear interest, Marina Rikhvanova worked to protect Siberia's lake Baikal, one of the world's most important bodies of fresh water, from environmental devastation brought on by these polluting industries.

Can we realize that the «sacrifice» of giving up meat so that our starving brothers and sisters may be fed, so that farmers» lands may be irrigated, so that trees may continue to grow in the Amazon, so that the rate of global warming and environmental devastation may be checked, so that Mother Earth may continue to have fertile land for growing crops, may we realize that this is a natural choice to be made and not an excruciating sacrifice?

Which brings me to some tips from Ranger Rick and the National Wildlife Federation about how to broach the subject of oil addiction and environmental devastation with your little ones.

That's especially worrisome in war - torn and extremely poor sections of Africa, where environmental damage can lead to deadly, vicious cycles of devastation.

Continued Birdsall, «Because the problem of global warming and massive environmental devastation appears to be lingering, however, the time may be right for the federal government to consider dealing with it again in some way.»

While we could not survive if the natural environment were utterly ruined, we could prosper very well under many scenarios of terrible ecological devastation, and so straightforward utilitarian economic analyses of environmental problems are not enough on their own to justify protecting nature.