Sentences with phrase «significant damage to the environment»

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

However, one can cause significant damage to the environment even without reaching a tipping point, so the threshold at which climate change becomes subjectively dangerous may well be below this.

Not exact matches

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

If you have been hurt badly, lied to or had significant physical and emotional damage from traditional medical care — being forced back into that environment will cause fear, that will hamper labour due to how women were made (any threat the woman feels causes labour to slow until she no longer experiences that «fight or flight response», and when she feels safe again, labour should resume)-- labour slows and then interventions «have» to be done... and the cycle repeats itself — reenforcing the belief that the hospital is not the place to birth.

«No matter what side of the aisle you're on, we all have a significant responsibility to protect our environment from avoidable damage,» she said.

«If there were a long term and significant increase in the pollutant content of the atmosphere either of particles or of carbon dioxide, the potential damage to the global environment could be severe,» he said.

The space environment poses significant risks to both humans and satellites due to harmful radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles that can easily penetrate typical shielding and damage electronics.

«Stroke damages blood - spinal cord barrier, researchers find: Stroke's long - term effects on blood - spinal cord barrier can lead to «an increasingly toxic environment» in spinal cord and «significant input on disease pathology».»

I am, for the most part, a believer in personal freedom but, like Lloyd's take on ATV's and the environment, I find it hard to see how off roading can be done without significant ecological damage (I'm sure my biodiesel buddies will disagree!).

-- a new offence of unauthorised acts in relation to a computer that result either directly, or indirectly, in serious damage in any country to the economy, environment, national security or human welfare, or create a significant risk of such things.

The public trust doctrine has not been widely discussed in Canadian case law with the only significant mention being by the Supreme Court of Canada in British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 2004 SCC 38 at para. 74 where Binnie J. acknowledged that «The notion that there are public rights in the environment that reside in the Crown has deep roots in the common law» (however, the majority decision ultimately took a conservative approach to not allow the Crown to succeed in a general claim for damages for «environmental loss» [caused by a negligently undetected controlled burn of slashing and other waste by a logging company] in the absence of a statutory scheme permitting such a claim).

The major issues on the appeal were the effect of an insurance covenant in a contract made between the plaintiff and one of the defendants (UPS) in a significant claim involving damage to vaccines stored in a temperature - controlled environment, and whether the defendants other than UPS, including Hilly's client, were entitled to take the benefit of the insurance covenant.

Traps, for instance, can be set within the environment to deal significant damage.