But depending on where you live and whom you ask, lawn-care may well be causing ecological disaster.
It's become the bogeyman responsible for ecological disaster, climate instability, nuclear weapons and potential designer plagues.
It was an ecological disaster, with dead and oil-laden birds as a painful reminder.
Despite widespread awareness of the problem, little has been done to reverse this ecological disaster.
In fact this particular mismatch may actually be all that stands between humanity and ecological disaster.
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Central government policies are leading the Chinese state to an ecological disaster for which there is no remedy.
But depending on where you live and whom you ask, lawn care may well be causing ecological disaster.
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But evidence that ITQs work is a powerful new hook to capture the political will and public attention needed to spread an idea that could avert an ecological disaster.
She also suggested that exploiting oil reserves in the area was not a realistic option as a spill would be an ecological disaster without access to logistical support from Argentina.
"This lake to me is a bit of an ecological disaster because we really don't understand how it's affecting all the various species that do live naturally within this environment, " she said.
They choked because they were not accepting responsibility for their actions long before the firms they ran faced economic peril, in the case of Lehman and Bank of America, or caused an ecological disaster, with BP.
"The issue is that dumping impoverished peasants on geometrically-plotted patches of virgin non-arable land, without any infrastructure, tillage equipment, venture capital, housing, water supplies, or training will result quite simply in an ecological disaster, " says Professor du Toit.
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"The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water, " according to Klaus Toepfer, the agency's executive director, whose comments are included in the report.
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