Environmental disasters, ecological breakdown.
The politics of the "New Left," which roughly evolved from 1945-2001, in the face of nuclear capability, overpopulation, ecological breakdown, and the spread of AIDS, could only hope to forestall Dystopia.
Probably a continuum exists between the well-functioning rumen and physiology of a healthy, high yielding dairy cow in maximal production and the ecological and physiological breakdown of a cow with full blown acute ruminal and systemic acidosis with the "high-concentrate syndrome" [ 31] /SARA condition, situated in between theses extremes.
The dystopian world that existed before the pandemic is seen in flashback: a nightmare of all-controlling corporations, out-of-control scientific innovations, ecological catastrophe and social breakdown which is equally familiar, from the likes of Blade Runner, Minority Report, The Hunger Games and countless others.
This study evaluates the effect of pine afforestation on grassland streams analyzing changes in two integrative ecological indicators: leaf litter breakdown and primary production.
This has given rise to an ongoing debate about the timing and causes of the assumed ecological degradation and cultural breakdown.
Anthropogenic drivers of hybridization include habitat loss, breakdown of ecological barriers or introduction of non-native or domesticated species [ 1, 6, 13, 18– 218.
Jared Diamond dubbed the reasons for biodiversity loss as the 'evil quartet' - habitat loss, over-exploitation of species, invasive species together with the exotic diseases they introduce, and the breakdown of ecological networks.
Tables relating to the SPI will also provide details about the breakdown of the ecological pressure of the different aspects of the life cycle into impact categories.
In case of the SPI valuation, an additional graphic will provide the breakdown of the ecological footprint according to infrastructure, fossil resources, renewable resources, non-renewable resources and emissions to air (excluding CO2 which is rated in the fossil resources part), water and soil (see Figure 5).
In 1990 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of the Czech Republic in 1993, told a joint session of the U.S. Congress, "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better... and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed -- the ecological, social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable".
