Sentences with phrase «real environmental progress»

One of my favorite sayings is that «years from now, environmentalists will look back on the current obsession with global warming and say that it did incredible harm to real environmental progress.»

Thus, it is not just a waste of time but is actually detrimental to making any real environmental progress.

Instead, by taking a dogmatic, anti-intellectual point of view on many issues and demonizing those who disagree with him (though not much in this particular book), he has become a polarizing force, taking us further from the crucial compromises that are needed to pave the way to real environmental progress in a democracy.

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«The real test is to begin implementing the change, tracking implementation progress, measuring environmental outcomes, and adjusting both the models and the actions if needed,» he said.

Having said all that, real environmental and humanitarian progress and change will be driven by big business and the multi-nationals doing the right and sustainable thing.

We need to make real climate progress, strengthen environmental and natural resource...

What we really want is much more clarity on effective policy responses — with a focus on the real issues of global economic progress and environmental protection.

Public is informed by same agency of cost, effectiveness of programs, waste, and progress of real environmental improvement per satellite telemetry.

But the real social and economic progress — the crux of the central ethics dilemma of our day is in real progress towards meeting legitimate social, economic and environmental aspirations.

In the fourth video in The Voice for Real Estate news series, NAR Director of Broadcasting Stephen Gasque looks at NAR's Environmental Summit, progress on flood insurance improvements, and an NAR win on FHA dual - agency policy on short sales.