Sentence examples for devastating environmental consequences from inspiring English sources

This is the maximum temperature that they believe the world can tolerate without there being devastating environmental consequences: spreading deserts, worsening storms and widespread flooding.

The president was even disdainful of his own administration's report on global warming, which acknowledged that the U.S. would experience far-reaching and, in some cases, devastating environmental consequences as a result of the climate change.

It has brought not only painful shortages and restrictions on water use but also profound questions about the region's capacity to grow the way it has and preserve its comfortable style of life without devastating environmental consequences and bitter divisions.

Plenty of countries, after all, manage to produce oil offshore without devastating environmental consequences, as America itself does in the Gulf of Mexico.On the other hand, Mr McCain seems to reject Mr Obama's plan to raise fuel-economy standards for vehicles out of traditional Republican sympathy for big business.

It uncovers the devastating environmental consequences of industrial strip-mining.

Transporting the oil to Gulf Coast refineries via rail is not economically feasible, as it involves prohibitively expensive start up costs stemming from time intensive expansions in rail infrastructure, not to mention the perilous prospect of a railway accident with devastating environmental consequences.

The decline in fish populations on the Xingu and the Madeira will inevitably have devastating human and environmental consequences.

We also visited with leaders from the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, whose communities have been devastated by the immediate environmental consequences of tar sands extraction.

The environmental consequences are considerable.

This has tremendous environmental consequences.

There are also environmental consequences.