Sentences with phrase «on ecological devastation»

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This sprawling city of a million people, built on and out of volcanic rock on the shores of an exploding lake has become synonymous — insofar as it comes to the attention of the wider world at all — with catastrophic refugee crises, ecological devastation, and looting and pillaging.

It's relying on renewable energy almost entirely and the result is ecological devastation, compared with the Dominican Republic.

Ridley contrasted Haiti's and the Dominican Republic's respective landscapes and suggests that Haiti has «pinched nature's lunch to provide [its] energy,» through its dependence on wood for charcoal production, leading to «ecological devastation» due to reliance on renewable energy.

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.