Sentences with phrase «only human pollution»

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This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

But human activities, including the use of fishing nets, pollution and disruption of it's habitat, have decimated the species to only a few thousand remaining individuals.

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

Unfortunately, only 6 % of these reefs are healthy; Destruction comes mainly from human activity: dynamite and cyanide fishing, pollution, global warming, over exploitation and environmentally - unfriendly tourism, and more...

While the best - known pollution in Mexico is Mexico City's air, which mainly comes from the combustion of vehicle fuel, it's not the only place with a problem or the only kind of pollution in circulation posing a serious risk to human health.

Ah, would you claim that acid rain and mercury «pollution» (your quotes) only affected humans in centres of population, not lakes and streams and soils downwind for hundreds of miles?

Not only is the pollution's affect on humans discussed, but also the fact that with the ice melts comes problems for polar bears, fishing, travel for the Inuit communities and innumerable other issues.

Not it is not similar because one event injected sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere where they stayed for years and affected the globe while the other («human particulates and aerosol pollution») were produced in the troposphere and have a residency time in the atmosphere of about 4 days and had only a regional effect.

Gallup found that whereas 47 % of Americans who say they understand the issue of global warming «Very well» think that it's «caused by the effects of pollution from human activities,» 62 % of those who feel they understand it only «Fairly well» do; and 59 % of those who feel they understand it «Not well» do.

World Water Week will see the Asian Development Bank call for partners to help it improve sanitation across Asia, a move that will not only improve human health but also nip environmental pollution in the bud.

But carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases aren't the only air pollution released by human activities.

And air pollution isn't the only harmful human cost of China's coal - driven industrial growth and export - orientation.

This is bound to ruffle a few feathers, so here are Professor Jacobson's comments on how he came to this conclusions: Jacobson Considered a Wide Range of Environmental Impacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

Jacobson has conducted the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.