Sentence examples for unsustainable activity from inspiring English sources

But whatever is unsustainable is sooner or later not sustained and there is a lot of unsustainable activity out there.

Therefore, many livestock breeders have the feeling that their activity is coming to an end, and that in this situation, it is an unsustainable activity apart from the biggest and richest livestock owners having access to subsidies and to the market who can survive.

Currently, there is much concern about how to make a transition away from environmentally unsustainable activities to sustainable ones, notably in agriculture, energy and transport sectors.

During the last decades, increasing demands on marine resources and unsustainable activities taking place in the marine area compromise the future use of the marine environment.

Said Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, "it is imperative that we act now to save our ocean from unsustainable activities and protect its unique ecosystems which we still know so little about.

Second, government interventions sometimes compound the errors of the market and further alter the market signals and other decision parameters in favour of unsustainable activities in the forest.

Notably, however, the greenhouse gas (GHG) issue is a 'tragedy of the commons' problem where an individual or country may obtain at least a short-term benefit from unsustainable activities (e.g. over-use of fertilizers) that may have a net negative effect on overall human welfare over time.

The effect of all such (subsidy) measures is to shift the margin of relative profitability between forest and the competing land use, encouraging more forest conversion than would otherwise take place". Such subsidies often affect forests because they frequently make unsustainable activities more profitable than the sustainable alternatives.

Do an inventory of your energy usage, your consuming habits, and your reliance on unsustainable products and make a list of ways you intend to curb your unsustainable activities and habits and replace them with sustainable ones.

In an era of globally unsustainable economic activity, encouraging progressive innovation and broadening the scale and scope of knowledge transfer is one strategy for helping to attenuate ecological damage.

Therefore, they cannot consciously accept the localisation of another dangerous and unsustainable industrial activity".