Sentence examples for by environmental damage from inspiring English sources

Development has often been accompanied by environmental damage.

Much of the isthmus has been scarred by environmental damage, which exacerbates its vulnerability to natural disasters (the floods of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 hit deforested areas especially hard).

Meanwhile, the Cornell Global Labor Institute issued a study suggesting that any jobs stemming from the pipeline's construction could be outweighed by environmental damage it caused, along with a possible rise in Midwest gasoline prices because a new pipeline would divert that region's current oversupply of oil to the Gulf Coast.

Mining is a highly dynamic process of intervention in landscapes, commonly accompanied by environmental damage and fundamental social and economic impacts.

sacrifice zone: a geographic zone that has been permanently impaired by environmental damage or economic disinvestment.

Their reasoning ranged from a moral obligation from God to protect the planet -- an idea of stewardship -- to a concern about the wellbeing of vulnerable communities that will be the hardest hit by environmental damage.

Earlier this week the British oil group lost an argument at the fifth circuit appeal court of New Orleans that compensation money was being spent on businesses not directly affected by the environmental damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon.

An animal lover who breeds pedigreed dogs and cats, Mrs. Stevens was shocked by the environmental damage from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989.

"If there are any economic benefits, which is unlikely, they will be heavily outweighed by the environmental damage that it will cause on so many levels".

As public concerns about water safety grow, what has emerged is a picture of a rural region marred by catastrophic environmental damage, inherent malpractice and a black market meat trade.

At the same time, economic growth that is accompanied by severe environmental damage is the threat that countries with a still weak institutional context may face [2].