Sentences with phrase «of global proportions»
Plastic objects that we use once and discard, or single - use plastics, are a growing critical problem of global proportion.
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Global warming and obesity are problems of global proportions.
The facts that a) we use in one year an amount of fossil fuel that took a million years to accumulate, b) we may be on the verge of a climate change catastrophe of global proportions and c) powerful technologies may soon fall into the hands of disturbed individuals with minds riven with those twin cancers of nationalism and religious fanaticism, seem to concern the scientific community a lot more than they do politicians or the media.
Extreme events are, indeed, teachable moments: «wake - up calls» that an environmental crisis of global proportions is imminent — much more so than the subtle and sometimes ambiguous early warning signs of global warming might lead us to believe.
«It was an event of global proportions,» says Liz Truswell, a paleontologist at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in pollen studies.
Though arsenic contamination is deemed a health risk of global proportions by the World Health Organization, the magnitude of that risk is poorly known in many parts of the world.
«Sin City,» the home of the famous Las Vegas Strip, flashy hotels, high - rolling casinos and world - famous celebrities, becomes the setting for a terrorist threat of global proportions.
As a newly graduated Strategist, you find yourself involved in a plot of global proportions.
Zajac was ahead of his time, combining formal approaches of contemporary art - making with challenging and conceptual abstract concepts of global proportion.
«Delaying real action until 2020 is a crime of global proportions,» said Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International.
Economism is now leading to both social and ecological catastrophes of global proportions.
We are moving toward a crisis of global proportions, and our mechanistic vision deters us from taking the drastic steps needed to change direction.
Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health.
We really sort of stumbled onto a problem of global proportions.