If global warming were truly an "environmental holocaust" in the making, as America's Vice-President Al Gore must wish he had never said, then, yes, countries should at once lock up their motor cars and shut down their coal plants.
We turn a blind eye to the human rights we ignore, the animal and environmental holocaust we are committing.
A bit of millennialist anxiety seems frankly realistic and not at all paranoid given the real threats of environmental holocaust, global war, and economic meltdown that loom over civilization like swords of Damocles, only I am not convinced that the Mayans, or anyone else, for that matter, possessed a crystal ball to gaze into our collective future.
Those who regularly attend art exhibitions can recall shows devoted to globalism, genetic mutation, environmental catastrophe, the Holocaust, meteorology, AIDS, real estate and many other subjects.
I worry about those who seem to fear small acts of terrorism more than they fear environmental disaster, nuclear holocaust, or economic catastrophe.
The book's wealth of topics includes spiritual deep ecology, ethical theory, animal rights, the Holocaust, the environmental crisis, and the experience of disability as well as new essays on the human meaning of technology, facing death, and a fascinating intellectual autobiography.
The threat of environmental cataclysm is replacing nuclear holocaust as the most frightening menace to civilization.
He invokes the shadow of history: the Holocaust, European imperialism and environmental destruction.
Professor Noam Chomsky has recently bemoaned the absence of public sphere discussion about the growing potential of nuclear holocaust and the ever-quickening slide toward an environmental apocalypse.
Taking a cue from broad-based class-action lawsuits like those filed on behalf of Holocaust survivors or against tobacco companies, a group of environmental lawyers is exploring novel legal strategies to adopt against global warming.
As the threat of nuclear holocaust began to fade from the collective consciousness, it was replaced by a growing awareness that environmental malefaction might be humanity's downfall.
