Sentences with phrase «sustained ecosystem function»

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That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

I'm inclined to take exception to the statement «Enormous tracts of virgin forest have little to do with sustaining people...» As «the air conditioner of the earth,» tracts of virgin tropical forest sustain us all through many important ecosystem functions.

Where do humans hold the line on the flow of species, and where do they give in and fall back on sustaining the functioning of valued ecosystems instead of the mix of species within such systems?

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Humans depend on functioning ecosystems to sustain themselves, and their actions affect those same ecosystems.