Sentences with phrase «pose ecological threat»

Nature: Himalayan plans pose ecological threat, researchers warn.

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Feminist utopian literature depicts these hidden communities in isolation from patriarchal civilization, which poses a threat to the creative and peaceful ecological niches imagined by women.

The first manifestation of this dilemma or contradiction leading to possible mortality is the ecological crisis — the threat which an expanding technological and industrial culture poses to the nature system and the natural resources on which all life depends, including the life of a technological and industrial society itself.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

«In the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

More work is needed on the ecological fate of these pollutants and the threat they pose to aquatic life and water quality.

In the past decade or two, the threat posed by the feral cat has forced scientists and researchers to radically rewrite Australia's ecological story.

Even we adults, aware of the ecological threat being posed, could admit to enjoying the anarchy.

In light of what it considers national security risks posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

In light of what it considers a national security risk posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.