Sentences with phrase «other environmental crises»

While the dangers in Flint and Standing Rock eventually became major stories this year, they were not the only ones worthy of attention, and there are other environmental crises hurting communities of color that still need the support of media to amplify a harsh reality.

Such a number is impossible to justify on biological grounds because the wolves could easily be wiped out by disease or many other environmental crises, such as an extra-hard winter.

Scientists say the amounts of meat now eaten, and the ways livestock are raised, appear to exceed the carrying capacity of the planet, resulting in a significant contribution to climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and other environmental crises.

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In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

Every American is implicated in the environmental crisis — there are plenty of other indulgences we could point at in our own lives, from living in oversized houses to boarding jets on a whim.

Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have issued a joint appeal for political leaders to «support the consensus of the world» that climate change and other environmental ills have created an ecological crisis that is harming the world's poorest the most.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

In other words, the shift to a service economy will not simply allow countries to grow out of the environmental crisis of global warming.

I had been invited to North Korea to take part in a seminar on the country's environmental crisis, jointly organised by two NGOs, one based in Pyongyang and the other in Beijing, China.

Our political leaders fail to realize that other Islamic populations are far more stable economically, politically and socially — and that the root of the crisis in the dryland countries is not Islam but extreme poverty and environmental stress.

Risks such as terrorism, cybercrime, organized crime, environmental degradation, government breakdown, corruption, illicit trade, fiscal crises, social inequality, racial and religious violence, among others.

The prospect did occur to me as I left a recent event at the XII Baltic Triennial, a cerebral, aesthetically arid show calling attention to our moment of environmental crisis, among other themes.

I've said this before: global warming is certainly not our only big environmental problem, but it is an urgent crisis that must be fixed immediately, if we are going to buy the time to address the other problems.

People who come to the clinic — we call them impatients, because they are too impatient to wait for legislative change and other traditional strategies to address environmental crisis, climate destabilization.

However, in the interim, we already have many under - utilized technologies that can sigificantly, positively impact our energy crisis, all while simultaneously addressing climate change and other environmental issues.

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

Instead, he argues that we should adapt to inevitable short - term temperature rises and spend money on research and development for longer - term environmental solutions, as well as other pressing world crises such as malaria, AIDS, and hunger.

Anyone who takes the time to properly research the origins of the «population control» movement will come to understand that the Rockefeller - Turner-Gates agenda for drastic population reduction, which is now clearly manifesting itself through real environmental crises like chemtrails, genetically modified food, tainted vaccines and other skyrocketing diseases such as cancer, has its origins in the age - old malevolent elitist agenda to cull the human «chattel» as one would do to rodents or any other species deemed a nuisance by the central planning authorities.

This crisis is compounded not only by many other environmental problems caused by industrialised agriculture — loss of biodiversity, pollution, over-use of water and land, to name but a few — but also by escalating health problems caused by industrialised food production — including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, some cancers, and diabetes — alongside continuing problems of hunger and malnutrition, worldwide.

In common with many such crises throughout Earth history, there is direct evidence from the rock and fossil records for elevated atmospheric CO2, rising temperatures, increased weathering and run - off, sealevel rise, expanded oceanic anoxia as well as other warming - related environmental changes.