Sentence examples for wreck the climate from inspiring English sources

"Bolivia is not trying to wreck the climate talks.

In the foreward, activist Bill McKibben makes a moral argument for divestment, saying: "If it's wrong to wreck the climate, then it's wrong to profit from that wreckage".

As the divestment advocate Go Fossil Fuel Free puts it: "If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage".

8. Fossil Free Following environmentalist Bill McKribben's mantra that 'if it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage,' the Fossil Free campaign attempts to get public institutions, such as universities and churches, to stop using fossil fuels.

The activists see unmitigated use of fossil fuels as a moral issue: "It is wrong to wreck the climate... it is wrong to profit from that wreckage".

Another is the more cautious but unmistakable call by President Obama on Tuesday to "put a price on it" ― "it" being the carbon emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes that have already begun to wreck the climate.

"Cambridge should listen to the science and stop profiting from wrecking the climate, by divesting from all fossil fuels this year.

It's time to stop profiting from wrecking the climate, whether you're an institution with lots of money like Oxford or Edinburgh, or a world leader in climate research such as the University of East Anglia.

The NASA scientist James Hansen's original calculations about the Canadian tar sands — that if you burned all the economically recoverable oil in those formations you would take the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to five hundred and forty parts per million — helped make the tar sands, already synonymous with land-scarring destruction, synonymous with wrecking the climate, too.

Andrew Taylor, campaigns manger at People & Planet, which supports university divestment campaigns across the UK, said: "If you are interested in studying environmental or social justice issues at a university that definitely won't be investing your fees in wrecking the climate, then Soas must now be one of the top places to do it.

He's been working on kite designs for a couple of years, but lately Griffith has been talking to audiences about what he sees as severe limits on man's ability to meet future energy demands without wrecking the climate.