Sentence examples for causing environmental destruction from inspiring English sources

The authorities admit that the influx of Chinese miners and their wealthy backers is causing environmental destruction and social conflict on an unprecedented scale.

Transnational corporations can be part of the problem, tending to undermine the livelihood of locals, displacing them from their home and land, interfering with their access to natural resources, and causing environmental destruction.

Writing in the Guardian, Hilal Elver, the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food, says: "Transnational corporations can be part of the problem, tending to undermine the livelihood of locals, displacing them from their home and land, interfering with their access to natural resources, and causing environmental destruction".

But the land not currently under cultivation is generally less fertile, and converting it to agriculture would mean clearing huge areas of forests and prairies, causing environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.Clearly a further boost in yields is the better bet.

Another problem with pinning all the blame for climate crisis on corporate elites is that humanly caused environmental destruction long predates the rise of capitalism.

This week she urged her fans, who she calls "little monsters", to read up on fracking, the controversial technique of extracting shale gas, which campaigners complain causes environmental destruction.

The film switches the infertility from male to female, but never explains its cause: environmental destruction and divine punishment are considered.

In fact, anti-logging, anti-grazing policies are causing environmental as well as economic destruction in America's mountain West.

Since the great Sahelian droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, we've become familiar with the idea that humans cause environmental degradation and destruction on a huge scale.

Concerned that this intensive use of the Tatra mountain passes for grazing purposes and would cause irreparable environmental destruction, the post-War government reacted by deciding to free the Tatras from excess grazing.

If these dams are built, it will be a grave human rights violation and cause irreparable environmental destruction in the Kayapó lands.