Sentence examples for destructive land from inspiring English sources

Since 2013, after decades of warnings about misguided development policies and destructive land use practices, experts and civil society organisations have been calling for increasingly strong measures to reduce water consumption to keep the minimum secure levels for supply reservoirs.

Both males and females tend to locate environmentally destructive land use such as coal mining away from their village settlements.

According to Palamuleni et al. (2011), the destructive land cover change may disrupt the hydrological cycle either through increasing or diminishing the water yield.

Destructive land management practices such as clearing forests also contribute by reducing nature's capacity to sequester carbon.

In 2004 Gallegos faced a recall election funded in a large part by Pacific Lumber Company, which was at the time one of the county's largest employers -- Gallegos had sued PALCO for fraud centering around the company's destructive land use and timber harvesting.

Enormous sums of public money have been allocated, largely unscrutinized, by Congress over the last several decades to essentially subsidize companies and destructive land use practices in the West that may deliver jobs and votes over short periods of time but the activities haven't proved to be sustainable, King says.

Or he was a brave and brilliant pilot who somehow pitched himself in those last terrible few seconds at the least destructive landing site he could see.

They were based on the need for Big Ag to sell products, and so successful was that campaign that "intensive" farming — which is truly intensively chemical, intensively wasteful and intensively destructive of land, air, animals, even diet — has become ubiquitous.

Skylarks are used as the justification for every kind of destructive practice a land manager wants to inflict.

The cyclone, which has intensified to a "high end" category two, has moved off the coast and the "destructive core" crossed land between Nhulunbuy and and Cape Shield, with gale-force winds of up to 155km/h.

After emerging into the Gulf of Carpentaria it intensified to a "high end" category two, and the "destructive core" crossed land between Nhulunbuy and and Cape Shield, with gale-force winds gusting of up to 160km/h.