Mr. Wang also told lawmakers that "the current environmental problems are worrisome".
The current environmental crisis pushes us to think anew about the world, and the categories we apply to it.
The current environmental assessment, the suit says, fails to adequately analyze the impact of the lease sale in the context of a warming climate.
The Bush administration can transform the current environmental debate (news article, April 7) by introducing principles that emphasize the positive linkages between economics, the environment and development.
Bruce E. Babbitt, who served on that commission, suggested that it would be a useful model for the current environmental crisis.
China is too multifaceted to be captured by reference only to Tibet policy, or the thuggish behaviour of the Public Security Bureau, or the current environmental crisis.
All in all, it seems to me that a lot of the current environmental proposals will eventually fall on deaf ears, as they take little account of detailed scientific measurement.
Ahmed, a researcher in fisheries management at the Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, told SciDev.Net there was a "vital link between prawn and shrimp farming in coastal Bangladesh and a 'green economy' that addresses the current environmental and economic crisis".
"The central failing of the current environmental policy discussion is that we have no bipartisan support on the need to decarbonise the electricity sector," said Erwin Jackson, deputy chief executive of The Climate Institute.
The scientists agree that to avoid mass extinction – and tackle the current environmental crisis – is possible but will require large-scale changes not only in how society operates but how humans view their relation to the natural world.
It noted that the current environmental protection licence held by Clarence Colliery does not specify a limit for nickel and this, along with the licence conditions for other contaminants, should be brought in line with national water quality guidelines.
