Entire communities have seen the local environment destroyed by these farms and small farmers going bankrupt because they can't compete against these conglomerates.
If you worked as I do in Haiti you would know how tough it is to promote development in an environment destroyed by deforestation.
Ms Ernst, alleges Mr Braley, is a tool of the Koch brothers, who wants to tear up the environment, destroy local green-energy livelihoods (eg, the farmers growing ethanol and running wind farms) and shore up the power of millionaires.
A nuclear exchange between the United States and North Korea would go off the charts in terms of lives lost, economies wrecked, and the environment destroyed.
It is a modern day gold rush, and like the gold mines that often left the environment destroyed, the search for oil under the sea floor is relentlessly destroying life in the oceans.
Fundamental particles such as photons are difficult to isolate from their environment without destroying many of the mysterious quantum properties that make them interesting for physicists to study.
The food would be organic, but it would be devastating for the environment by destroying virgin rain forest and requiring lots of fossil fuel to transport the bananas to New York.
