The phrase "abuse the environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions that harm or exploit natural resources or ecosystems.
Example: "The factory's waste disposal practices are a clear example of how some industries choose to abuse the environment for profit."
Alternatives: "harm the environment" or "exploit the environment".
Local planning officials strongly opposed the project, with critics noting the interchange would benefit the developers but abuse the environment by cutting through a valued wetland.
As examples of this, Chalke cites not only such things from the past as the Inquisition and slavery, but also examples of how the Bible is used today to "condone the death penalty, to keep women subservient to men, to incite Islamophobia, to insist on a 'young earth' -anti-scientific-six day understanding of creation, to oppress gay people and to abuse the environment".
Our students described similar instances of intimidation, and occasionally, verbal abuse: "The environment is intimidating, medicine is like the army, it's a silent thing, the system is cruel, most seniors talk as they are moving, we have time but no decision making as he's your senior, he knows terribly much more so its allowed for it to be like a military school.
Dr. Hardin presented this case as a cautionary tale for a modern society that was abusing the environment.
"We do not need to burn through our forests and drain our groundwater before we realize that abusing the environment has awful consequences," he writes.
"Some enterprises are abusing the environment to lower export prices," Chen Guanglong, a Ministry of Commerce official, said in announcing a crackdown on polluters this fall.
He requited by tailoring an earmark in the 2005 transportation bill for their pet project: a cross-wetlands connection to the interstate, known as the Coconut Road Interchange, that would boost development values while abusing the environment.
"They should be apologizing for more than 50 years of abusing the environment and causing illness," said Randy Snell of Manorville, who attributes a rare cancer diagnosed in his daughter to radiation from the lab.
Small but carefully set up businesses are emerging across the land, offering the best quality without abusing the environment.
The abuse of the girl and the abuse of the environment stem from the same driving male impulse for control and dominance.
In her 16 plays, Ms. Corthron, 40, has written about social evils suffered by blacks, from abuse of power by the police ("Force Continuum") to abuse of the environment ("Splash Hatch on the E Going Down," "Safe Box").
