We are completely intertwined with China's success, and the country's environmental failures are partially our own.
ONE of the bigger environmental failures of the leading industrialised nations is their inability to deal with over-exploitation of fisheries.
The maps at the end of the book, illustrating the national forests, federal bird reservations and national parks and monuments Roosevelt created or expanded, are eloquent testament to his success, though Brinkley also looks at Roosevelt's environmental failures, often caused by Western "reclamation" projects.
And the barren, stupid climate wars and dumb fact-free scare campaigns are a guaranteed recipe for a terrible economic and environmental failure.
With the economic, social and even environmental failure of communism and its milder comrade, socialism, still fresh in the memory, there is little chance that any alternative to a capitalist economy could soon garner widespread support.
Her plays, which display a love of old-fashioned showmanship and the lost corners of history, often begin with an irresistibly whimsical conceit: environmental failure causes a women to quit her job and dream her days away ("What Then"); or the secret history of the inventor of television ("The Ruby Sunrise").
The Athens Games, for instance, are widely viewed as an environmental failure, particularly with respect to sustainable construction and green energy.
We have recently dealt with other environmental market failures with remarkable success.
Like Drummond, Colombia's other top coal producer, Cerrejón, has been similarly criticized by rights groups for alleged suppression of union organizing and rampant environmental safety failures, resulting in hundreds of workers "suffering from serious health problems as a direct result of the inadequate working conditions at the mine," according to World Development Movement.
BM: The biggest failure in environmental terms was the failure to get, or even try to get, serious climate legislation and the second is the failure to move the diplomatic ball at all.
Terrorist attacks on any of these lines could cause power failures, environmental and economic damage, and threats to human life.
