Sentences with phrase «social damage»

This can help society to cope with current climate variability and limit the economic and social damage caused by climate - related disasters.

He alluded to the fact that housing bubbles create this kind of social damage, but all that's been hushed up.

They are becoming a weapon capable of considerable social damage; a Faustian technology that seduces with convenience, particularly for those who consume a great many books, but offers little else while extracting a corrosive toll on our social institutions and norms.

The promotion of biofuels - more accurately known as agrofuels - is causing massive environmental and social damage from Colombia and Brazil to Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Wall is gone and the massive cleanup of ecological and social damage in the East is under way, but many of the older generation are still wandering in the wilderness, with little taste for manna or hope of glimpsing any promised land.

The silence continues with each wave of the government's new academies and free schools that have wide permission to select and discriminate on religious grounds — no official Labour remarks on the potential social damage of that reality either.

This combination of scientific responsibility and general accessibility is desperately needed if we are to escape the serious social damage caused by such widely disseminated pseudoscience.»

One hopes, however, that their voices, and others like theirs, aren't lost to a Brexit - era Britain with more than its own share of crippling social damage, disintegration and prejudice to ponder: there are many English Honeys and Three Billboards Outside Ebbsfleets demanding to be made, and the UK industry can ill afford to export all its anger.

Viewing her beautifully executed black and white photographs is akin to travelling through time, across the fabrics of America that physically built America; it gives agency to the physiological and social damages wrought upon the citizens of its underprivileged classes throughout the process, and particularly upon the Frazier family.

If such growth creates social damage — there is no capitalist economics that can prevent such damage.

There's good research coming out now reporting physical, intellectual and social damage resulting from parking young human heads in an electronics circus.

They are becoming a weapon capable of considerable social damage; a Faustian technology that seduces with convenience, particularly for those who consume a great many books, but offers little else while extracting a corrosive toll... Continue reading Ebooks in 2013 →

One somehow suspects that a 2013 Chinese law that requires children to visit their elderly parents regularly — a coercive attempt to repair some of the social damage caused by even worse coercion — is not going to do the trick.

Mining and oil drilling are essential to the industrial world - but they are also linked with severe environmental and social damage, not to mention corruption.

Deforestation is back on the rise due to the weakening of key forest protection legislation, the timber sector is full of illegality and big infrastructure projects like hydrodams are bringing environmental and social damage.

The human, enviornmental, economic, and social damage has simply been extraordinary.

The biggest hurdle is we still don't value financially the environmental and social damage we're doing with our current fossil - fuel economy.

I hate to think of the financial, health and social damage and costs suffered by the UK during the past five worst winters for years — brought on by global warming.

Unless new policies are enacted to protect threatened lands, secure socially acceptable land use, and steer bioenergy development in a sustainable direction overall, the environment and social damage could in some cases outweigh the benefits

The rather heated debates we have had about the likely economic and social damage of carbon emissions have been based on that idea that there is something like a scientific consensus about the range of warming we can expect.

They are responding to public concerns that production might involve unacceptable environmental and social damage.

Environmental and social damages are underestimated while using coal in China, as a result of market failures and weaknesses in government regulations.

Klein can often be found at Tar Sands protests throughout North America, and writes extensively on the environmental and social damage of the Tar Sands.