Sentences with phrase «prominent environmentalists»

But more than 100 national and local groups, led by some of Britain's most prominent environmentalists, including David Bellamy, Sir Crispin Tickell, and James Lovelock, have argued that wind power is inefficient, destroys the countryside and makes little difference to Britain's soaring carbon emissions.

In 2008, a Washington Post editorial by two prominent environmentalists described how ethanol mandates have harmed the environment and spawned hunger across the world.

Last November, Channel 4 aired What the Green Movement Got Wrong, which featured prominent environmentalists, including Lynas, reflecting on the failures of environmentalism.

As this short history of failed predictions reveals, prominent environmentalists have been using fears of famine and ecological disaster to promote a population - control agenda for many years.

Should we propose, then, that events of mass human suffering be attributed to prominent environmentalists, because their backwards, anti-human and anti-developmental ideology has created a huge cost?

Moreover, what the scientists claim their work does discredit was, according to prominent Environmentalists, discredited years ago.

This isn?t just Lord Melchett, it is also Jonathan Porritt, it is Sara Parkin, it is David Bellamy, it is Tom Burke, it is Des Wilson: some of the most prominent environmentalists of the past twenty years.

I'll be writing much more about this issue, as I promised when I recently explored the starkly different reactions from two prominent environmentalists to the still - unfolding events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

I know the greed fundamentalists think there's something wrong with the ESA as it is, but I never thought I'd see prominent environmentalists agree.

Case studies of prominent environmentalists such as Professor Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement are used to enhance their knowledge.

Al Gore, the world's most prominent environmentalist, last year changed his mind about biofuels, the environmental benefits of which are looking increasingly doubtful

Telling quote «I would question your idea that climate change is threatening people's lives... David Bellamy has said it's not happening... he's a very prominent environmentalist.»

For instance, Dr. James Lovelock is a prominent environmentalist, and independent researcher, who in the 1960s was the first scientist to notice that human activity was increasing the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere, and he also developed the popular Gaia hypothesis.

It's too early to say much about the film — I haven't seen it yet — but it appears to feature prominent environmentalist, Mark Lynas saying that environmentalists were wrong to oppose GM and nuclear energy.

«Within the fossil fuel industry itself,» said the prominent environmentalist Lester Brown in 1998, «some companies such as Enron, British Petroleum, and... are already looking to the future, and -LSB-...]

In Cowed, Denis Hayes, a prominent environmentalist who coordinated the first Earth Day in 1970, along with his wife Gail Boyer Hayes, an environmental lawyer, tell the story of that meat.

Students from Unity College in Maine join prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben next week for a road trip, carrying a very old solar hot water panel from their college campus to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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The bill proposed an idea that had strong backing from environmentalists, including Gore, as well as prominent conservative economists.

Those in favor of the motion (some additions may come, organizers say) will be the «skeptical environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg; Philip Stott, the British biogeographer who has become a prominent critic of global warming worriers; and Peter W. Huber, the Manhattan Institute scholar, lawyer and mechanical engineer who has written that energy waste is unavoidable and beneficial.

Featuring commentary from Bjork herself, interviews with notable environmentalist and scholars (Omar Ragnarsson and Andri Snaer Magnason) as well as other prominent Icelandic figures, the film is centered around exploring the concept of alternative energy and how it can apply to the Icelandic environment.