Sentence examples for ecological calamity from inspiring English sources

The law, currently under consideration by a committee in Brazil's Senate, would represent an ecological calamity.

"Beasts" doesn't overtly refer to sinking islands, or coastal erosion, or specific hurricanes, or any other actual ecological calamity.

This summer, the beach is the symbol of an ecological calamity which has been 40 years in the making.

By walking the planet with a sandwich-board predicting impending doom, they have helped reduce the chances of an ecological calamity.

That rings true to a reporter who over decades has watched governments and big business sidestep serious action to avert ecological calamity.

Throughout history these branches of culture have responded to war, ecological calamity and crises of many sorts: why, then, should climate change prove so peculiarly resistant to their practices?

Of all modern ecological calamities, global warming suffices to bring to an end life on earth.

All vital indicators--crime, ecological calamities, increasing suicide rates, negative population growth--point to a country in distress.

This is a very urgent need, and without such an attempt to anticipate the possible, society is likely to be a more or less impotent spectator to the certainty of continual ecological calamities.

Of particular interest in this summer of ecological disaster is data they collected documenting the severe and continuing harm to marine mammal populations that resulted from the previous largest such calamity, the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Years of mismanagement and poor policy have led to ecological and energy calamities across the region.