Sentences with phrase «use environmentalism»

Obama has used environmentalism to cut jobs, promote poverty, reduce living standards, and reward the rich.

They used environmentalism and science for a political agenda and as Michael Crichton said,

Environmentalists have used environmentalism and environmental science for a political agenda.

Not exact matches

If you want to set up a robust dialog or debate, use the film to contrast creation vs. evolution or biblical stewardship vs. radical environmentalism.

These countries see Western environmentalism as a form of neocolonialism, and the fear that ecological concerns will be used to keep the poorer nations in permanent subordination leaps off the pages of UN documents.

The use of flat fees has become a hallmark of modern environmentalism, be it a congestion fee or a gas tax.

Doubling one's kitchenware would seem to run counter to the «less is more» mantra of contemporary environmentalism but, as Stern notes, because both sets are never used simultaneously, the useful life of each is likely extended over time.

«We've used new methods developed over the years and new innovations Ken has developed to add in the politics — and find that politics and environmentalism can mediate some environmental impact,» Dietz said.

According to the Sundance Institute, this year's panels will «address topics including the relationship between media technology and storytelling, film aesthetics and the use of celluloid, music design, casting and environmentalism.»

«They use the Internet, texting, cell phones, all the youth - driven technology avenues, to disperse information about practical environmentalism,» Kirk explains.

Instead of being part of a process that overproduces 50,000 copies of a book that sit in a warehouse somewhere, we're talking about a kind of environmentalism that uses our resources wisely.

Saro - Wiwa «uses folklore, masquerade traditions, religious practices, food and Nigerian popular aesthetics to test art's capacity to transform and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism.»

Growing up in a Southern Appalachian coal mining community, the subjects involving environmentalism and land use have a lot of personal significance -LSB-...]

This restaging offers an opportunity to consider the photographs both in the context of the newly central role photography was playing in 1970s contemporary art as well as in relation to the period's prevailing cultural concerns, such as land use, national identity, environmentalism, and nostalgia.

Inspired by historical sources as varied as the Italian futurists (for their interdisciplinary and offbeat interpretations of industrial development) and folk or outsider artists native to the American South (for their exaltation of the amateur aesthetic and embrace of the everyday), Blackwell's artworks address such contemporary themes as environmentalism, excess, utility, and (re) use with a fresh and playful sense of experimentation.

Growing up in a Southern Appalachian coal mining community, the subjects involving environmentalism and land use have a lot of personal significance to Hatfield who often recalls the region's ironic juxtaposition of protected wilderness and mined land as a major influence on her work.

I believe that there is a middle road, where environmentalism is not a religion and we can carefully use our resourses without harming the environment.

This is not just the politics of fear (which by the way is used far more by the right to promote war and secrecy and torture than the left to promote environmentalism) but politics by misrepresentation.

a lifelong inner - circle activist in environmentalism and used to be a big believer in warmism.

Using the example of rainbow fish, a species valuable to seaside municipalities because of its ability to produce sand (just one rainbow fish can produce a ton of sand each year) Lau explains that environmentalism is just as...

British architect Austin Williams — http://www.futurecities.org.uk — promotes a human - centred approach to nature; challenges risk - aversion and the precautionary principle; believes that environmentalism is driving down social aspirations; criticises the use of politicised solutions to technical problems; encourages debate, argument, critical dialogue and freedom of expression, and fights for development instead of sustainable development.

The use of science to limit political possibilities, and lower our horizons by constructing plausible catastrophic scenarios is the everyday language of environmentalism.

In his writings, Brulle often uses the term «climate denial» to describe the views of skeptics of climate change environmentalism.

People who use the environment as a vehicle for political control have not quite destroyed environmentalism.

«Something that said this used to be a coal plant... or a monument to a new form of environmentalism,» said Frank Abbondanzio, Montague town administrator.

Making use of some remarkable scientific discoveries, Feral lays out a new, positive environmentalism, in which nature is allowed to find its own way.

«Something that said this used to be a coal plant... or a monument to a new form of environmentalism,» said Frank Abbondanzio,

Just as each major UK political party has absorbed environmentalism into its manifesto, so too have journalists used it to inform the entirety of their own perspective on the world.

And worst of all, everybody involved in UK politics seemed to be using the looming catastrophe to demand that people use less, expect less, and obey the tenets of environmentalism.

By redefining the political problems that environmentalism has in persuading people that it knows what their best interests are as a problem of human nature, theories like this can be used to justify acting without consent, and treating the public like naughty children.

Is environmentalism so popular with the public - sector middle - class chattering classes, because they can use it to generate more tax revenue to augment their salaries?

The main theme of his talk is the political use of environmentalism as a religion for indoctrination and control.

Tucker's conversion began when he read Morris Fiorina's Disconnect, which outlines the way partisan divisions take shape between Democrats and Republicans, and points out that environmentalism used to be one of conservatives» chief concerns.

From designing products that are ever more efficient and use less toxic materials, to designing take - back programs and peripheral green projects, companies are thankfully working hard to one - up each other in environmentalism.

A centerpiece of the Bioneers conference is how we use technology to further environmentalism.

OTOH when it comes to pseudo-Science, i.e. the use of «sciency sounding» terms and phrases to pursue a religious / social / ideological agenda, political ideology seems (to me) to make a big difference: religious types spout creationism (including «intelligent» design) or «divine providence», socialists spout environmentalism (including «global warming»), «conservatives» seem to usually resort to mis - understood, or at least mis - applied engineering formulas, and libertarians are all over the map.

While it might not seem at first that a new study, being highlighted by BBC News, on the overestimation of how much health care costs for our aging populations are likely to increase has an immediate connection to environmentalism, in fact realizing that we may have to spend considerably less money here, as people are productive at much older ages than they used to, has big implications on how we discuss population growth and economic expansion.

Granted, there may be products that can help us to green our world, such as a compost bin, a home solar power or wind energy system, or a cleaner car or a bicycle, and there are certainly greener alternatives that we can choose when buying products we already use, but for the most part, consuming more resources in the name of Earth Day runs counter to the core of the responsible environmentalism.

Lucas demonstrates how political environmentalism uses superficially plausible scientific arguments to create fear and political legitimacy.

However, this is not the definition of «environmentalism» we'd use here at Climate Resistance, which integrally includes the desire to rein in human ambitions.

Several factors, including environmentalism, spur the trend toward sustainability, the broad term used to indicate practices that conserve the Earth's resources.