The environmental consequences of our economy is only improving because it seems likely to shrink.
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It says the environmental consequences will be minimised by the conditions attached to the proposed schemes.
Or would the environmental consequences be of such magnitude as to make the decision ill-conceived?
Vladimir Slivayak, a spokesman for Ecodefense in Moscow, also said the environmental consequences would last for a decade.
They are dangerous things, their production and transport often unpalatable, the less visible environmental consequences of their use worse still.
"We are well aware that the loss of these hefted flocks will have serious environmental consequences for the Brecon Beacons, " he said.
Along the way Bank-backed projects sometimes had horrendous social and environmental consequences.
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Plenty of countries, after all, manage to produce oil offshore without devastating environmental consequences, as America itself does in the Gulf of Mexico.
It seems to me that energy policy should focus on the environmental consequences of the former and the regulatory issues that inhibit the latter.
Encouraging migration south also has bad environmental consequences for the north.
This Commission will also look at guidelines to reduce negative social and environmental consequences of organizing mega events such as the Olympic Games, the Football World Cup or regional final competitions.
Dozens of federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, have not been able to produce justifiable evidence that links fracking to serious environmental consequences.
Even the myriad charcoal businesses that have sprung up by operators like the Moja Youth Reform group and others have environmental consequences, though they are thriving enterprises that serve important community needs.
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Jonathan Safran Foer, the bestselling novelist, has published articles declaring that he is raising his kids vegetarian because of the environmental consequences of meat farming and that if people are going to eat meat, they should consider eating dogs.
The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.
Then Unep, or the UNEO, or whatever it metamorphoses into, may finally be able to make the impact envisaged in Stockholm 34 years ago, and help human societies to "...shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences".
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They have also resulted in severe environmental consequences globally due to nutrient mismanagement, including the great U.S. Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, more recently, massive plumes of nutrient runoff in areas like the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, which are creating huge marine dead zones.
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The researchers say the problem of inactivity has reached pandemic levels, with far-reaching health, economic, environmental and social consequences.
The Obama administration and a group called WildEarth Guardians last week settled a long-running fight over endangered species that could have far-reaching environmental and economic consequences.
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And we will continue to make sure that all is being done to plug the leak and to deal with the environmental and economic consequences of what that pollution has caused.
Due to the consequences of the environmental crisis in Aral Sea region such as poor soil conditions, intensive desertification and land degradation, the farmers and dehkhans often face a plenty of problems.
There are obvious consequences, both environmental and political.
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It is a cold political calculation designed to win November elections, but grassroots conservatives know that appeasing environmental activists by opposing affordable energy produces dramatically negative economic consequences.
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"These deep pillars and unnecessary reclamation on both sides of the bridge will have terrible consequences, " warns Girish Raut, an environmental activist who has worked with fishermen residing on two ends of the link.
He has advised on the tax consequences of marquis antitrust, civil rights and wrongful conviction cases, SEC restitution, and environmental contamination litigation.
"Since the environmental implications of the projects are not fully understood, BP assumes no liability for unexpected or unintended consequences of these projects, " the company said in a posting on its website.
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