Sentences with phrase «resulting environmental catastrophes»

Tales of extreme climate and resulting environmental catastrophes from Russia to Pakistan haven't done it,» he warned.

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But the result is that they may reflect a contemporary condition in which environmental catastrophe is too enormous to parse.

Presenting their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Astrid Dannenberg, Postdoc researcher at the Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg and Columbia University, and Professor Scott Barrett, Columbia University, explain the paradox of why countries would agree to a collective goal, aimed at reducing the risk of climate catastrophe, but act as if they were blind to this risk.

Perhaps the most overlooked environmental catastrophe is the collapse of oyster populations — the result of two diseases Dermo and MSX along the East and Gulf Coasts (as well as overharvest etc).

That may be so old timer, but some of us have been around long enough to know that ounce of prevention is worth a metric ton of remediation, and understand that your work is for the most part a result of bad decisions by these so called experts which have resulted in easily preventable environmental catastrophes, many of them large scale and ongoing.

The extreme amounts of water needed for growing cotton have resulted among other things in the drying up of the Aral Sea, one of the biggest environmental catastrophes of our time.»