Sentences with phrase «on environmental devastation»

The organization focuses on environmental devastation, global food injustices, and deficits in democracy.

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First, the environmental devastation brought on by the industry is piling up liabilities that far outweigh the gains to most Canadians.

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 largOn 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 largon trucked - in food, air conditioning — contribute to environmental devastation and economic instability in the world at large.

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.»

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.

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.

In addition to the environmental devastation they wreak, oil spills kill Florida jobs that depend on clean coastal water such as fishing, tourism and their related industries.

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.