Sentences with phrase «term threats to the environment»

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Therefore, a «need imposed by the environment» will be experienced by an occasion not merely as a «threat» to its own subjective fulfillment but also in terms of its capacity to disrupt the future which that occasion is able to affect by its aims.

In the short term, this may have benefits, especially in a dangerous environment: When your threat - detection system — sometimes referred to as your fight - or - flight response — is on high alert, you are always prepared for trouble, and you can react to it quickly.

It is not a good term to use to describe those who are rationally skeptical of the (not yet scientifically validated) premise that AGW, caused principally by the human emissions of CO2, has been the primary cause of past warming and that it represents a serious potential threat for humanity and the environment.

Moreover, one might wonder whether the threat conditions we've created for many schools with high - stakes accountability are serving us well, or if it may be time to begin to reframe accountability in terms of a challenge condition that encourages educators to harness their collective ingenuity to create better learning environments for all students.

In an interview with the Boston Globe on March 9, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the Navy's top officer in the Pacific, stated that climate change was the biggest long - term threat in the Pacific region and «probably the most likely thing that is going to happen... that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.»

Torok / CSIRO: -LSB-...] idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed «global icons» -LSB-...] One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef -LSB-...] It also became apparent that there was always a local «reason» for the destruction — cyclones, starfish, fertilizers -LSB-...] A perception of an «unchanging» environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of systematic damage from long - term climatic / environmental change -LSB-...] Such a project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate change

limit pollutants, toxins and other environment conditions that pose immediate and long - term threats to health;

There's no doubt that tar sands production is a threat to the environment — in terms of global warming, deforestation, and water pollution it's a nightmare.