Sentences with phrase «of environmental thought»

Or has peak oil been a central tenet of environmental thought?

A searing critique of environmental thought has emerged from an unlikely source — contemporary French philosophy.

Steven Rubenstein Professor for Environment and Natural Resources / Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture Environmental Program / Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, a professor of environmental thought and culture at the University of Vermont, blogged on the name question ahead of a breakfast panel on the response of the arts and humanities to this concept of a human - driven geological epoch.

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

In refusing to make an idol of humanity, some species of environmental thought make an idol of the universe itself.

A more cheerful note came from Camilla Born, of the environmental think tank E3G.

Jonathan Porritt, founder of environmental think - tank Forum for the Future, agreed.

As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over the political establishment, the failure to win the public support that might create the basis for decisive action to save the planet has also increasingly been blamed on climate sceptics operating on the internet.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

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And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

«I think far less than 1 percent of the 7.4 billion people on earth are driven by the environmental benefit of plant - based food.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

The environmental impact is potentially huge: Just think about all of those FedEx, UPS, and Amazon packages that require labeling.

«I think it's too early to make any judgments on what I would call the very short opening statement, and we'll see what happens as we go forward,» Gerard told reporters at a conference of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of large labor unions and environmental groups.

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

«Larger companies are starting to see the benefit of thinking about not just profit, but about societal and environmental value as well,» says Chou.

But for those who are concerned about Keystone pipeline coming through the U.S., some look at what they think they know about the environmental performance of the oilsands and say, «I'm not comfortable with that.»

Verle Sutton, who co-wrote the MediaIdeas report and is a veteran of the U.S. paper industry, thinks producers should follow Domtar's lead and be more aggressive in telling the environmental story, «but the media doesn't take them too seriously.»

In fact, 29 % of respondents in the recent poll think that environmental spending should decrease, which is up from the 9 % who felt that way two years ago.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

Many of the environmentalists who responded angrily to Steiner beseech readers to, as the Minneapolis non-profit wrote, «think about «profits» a little more broadly» to include the job creation and environmental benefits that recycling brings.

The bag - fee movement — driven by environmental crusaders and corporate group - think — un-tipped because it conflicted with the primacy of consumer preferences.

In doing so, he laid the foundation for the new discipline of enterprise design, successfully applying his design thinking methodology to economic, cultural, governmental, environmental, and social change for internationally celebrated designers, leading companies, and countries around the world.

I think China finally caught on to the fact that it was pricing its rare earth minerals at the uneconomic low - cost margin of extraction, not taking into account the environmental clean up costs or the replacement costs for these basically irreplaceable rare metals.

A 2014 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 85 percent thought the pipeline would create a significant number of jobs, while 47 percent thought it would pose a significant environmental risk.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

For example, as the environmental costs of climate change rack up, planning for the future and thinking about climate mitigation can genuinely help a company's bottom line.

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

This was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation — think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third - party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.

We need to think about and incorporate this set of current environmental variables into planning our ascent / descent well before our current summit attempt is over.

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

Although she is not specifically addressing environmental thought, this is an argument pressed by Caroline Walker Bynum in her recent and remarkable study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity.

Nonetheless, the lines of inquiry connected with the term — combined with fresh study of biblical, patristic, and Orthodox thought — hold high promise, I believe, for a constructive response to the concerns raised by today's environmental philosophers.

On the other hand, the younger set takes their sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to think about the so - called «order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.

To describe strip mines as environmentally devastating reflects a way of thinking that logically requires one to regard the building of dykes and reclaiming of land in Holland as one of the greatest environmental crimes of all time.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Hundreds of people have been camping out and standing against the construction of the pipeline, according to reports, because they think the whole project poses a major environmental threat to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its cultural sites.

Reducing the power of governments to deal with environmental issues by giving the WTO the power to overrule environmental legislation thought to restrain free trade hardly seems to be an expression of rationality.

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?

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.

There are many reasons to think ill of s.ex, regardless of virginity, e.g. disease, environmental impact, social disruption of promiscuity, etc., however, that was not my point.

An environmental philosopher who has thought much about the issue of value in nature is Holmes Rolston, III (PGW).

«Conceptual Resources for Environmental Ethics in Asian Traditions of Thought: A Propaedeutic.»

They believe that environmental ethics, rightly understood, points to an alternative discipline and an alternative way of thinking in its own right: one that recognizes without equivocation the radical interconnectedness, and the equal value, of all beings.

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.

[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.

If you take a biology or environmental science class, you can see the thought God put into every aspect of this world.

It may do itself in, sooner than most of us think, by massive environmental pollution, and / or a nuclear holocaust.