Ecological worries apart, critics fear that Mr Blanchard's cavalier approach will sideline the many local villagers in the reserve.
Liberal support slipped.At the same time, the Greens benefited from the popularity of their unofficial leader and Germany's incumbent foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, as well as from fears of war and ecological worries stirred up by the floods.
Vitter wondered whether the statement was "an irresponsible prediction," but Holdren parried, suggesting instead that he was simply calling attention to mounting ecological worries.
The number of independent bookstores in the United States is, like the rainforests (a slightly retro ecological worry, I know), shrinking steadily.
By Jenna Krajeski September 4, 2008 The number of independent bookstores in the United States is, like the rainforests (a slightly retro ecological worry, I know), shrinking steadily.
— Maria Newman Slate: As if global warming isn't bad enough, Scotch drinkers have another ecological worry to keep them awake: peat is not a renewable resource.
It's partly on gastronomic grounds – in their experience, farmed, freeze-dried insects taste "like cardboard", Evans says – but also on ecological ones, worrying that we may end up merely replacing one industrial protein-production system with another.
They object to large-scale insect farming partly on gastronomic grounds – in their experience, farmed, freeze-dried insects taste "like cardboard", Evans says – but also on ecological ones, worrying that we may end up merely replacing one industrial protein-production system with another.
I did have a few ecological concerns: I worried about acid rain, the logging of tropical rainforests and the hole in the ozone layer, which, like everything, was the size of Wales (though luckily for us was situated elsewhere).
Although seemingly lighthearted, the toy octopus experiment is part of a deadly-serious effort to understand the worrying ecological implications of a process known as ocean acidification.
In comparison, real-world fears of the world's end – building on the threat of nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War, now replaced by worries of ecological overshoot and consequent social collapse – seem to be increasing all the time.
