Sentence examples for environmentally devastating from inspiring English sources

The perception at the time was that globalisation was unfair, favoured big enterprises over small ones, and was environmentally devastating.

As Barcott writes, "the dam was a fiasco: environmentally devastating, economically unsound, geologically suspect and stinking of monopoly profiteering".

What happened next illustrates the myriad challenges the United States faces as it tries to phase out the popular but environmentally devastating cooling gas that was in Mr. Spector's unit.

Environmentally devastating perhaps, but efficient and convenient for newly mobile young people.

Indeed, the throwaway model is environmentally devastating.

The meat industry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all.

The role of guerrillas and the new criminal syndicates in the pell-mell opening of new mines has made Antioquia — the department, or province, whose capital is Medellín — one of Colombia's deadliest and most environmentally devastated regions.

Shuttered bases can leave behind not only dependent communities but environmentally devastated sites.

Rapacious humans from an environmentally devastated Earth have arrived on an alien moon called Pandora in search of a precious resource called "unobtainium".

The long-term impacts of blast fishing are both environmentally and economically devastating.

One such reason is that they have killed 1,000s of hectares of legal crops belonging to 1,000s of campesinos, Afro-Colombians and indigenous people, and because of devastating environmental impacts including destroying soil fertility, contaminating water, and pushing coca cultivation deeper into particularly environmentally sensitive, biodiversity-rich regions like the Amazon.