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Yet, despite strong demand, we are far from providing accessible information on products’ environmental impact of each.
Indeed, two-thirds of consumers find it difficult to understand which products are better for the environment, and 29% never look for environmental information when shopping.
Research has shown, however, that it is not enough to inform consumers of the environmental features of products, their use, or their disposal.
These rules provide special protections to foreign investors that often come into conflict with public health or environmental regulations.
Although it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between people fleeing from environmental factors and those who have left for other reasons, we know that climate will play a larger role in migration, as slow-onset threats such as erosion and acute hazards such as cyclones threaten more people’s livelihoods.
Rapid population growth also tends to accelerate the depletion of environmental resources both locally and globally, and can permanently undermine the prospects for their recovery.
Moral, ethnic, and environmental issues follow similar ideological lines.
And, as usual, the consequences – environmental destruction, damage to health, and impeded development – are disproportionately affecting the world’s poor.
As the fourth estate, the media holds governments and corporations accountable by reporting on corruption, environmental degradation, and other violations of the public trust.
Development is a comprehensive process that involves economic, social, and environmental dimensions – the three pillars of sustainable development.
This approach also applies to the environmental pillar of development: intervention to counter damage generated by the economy is not enough.
Environmental concerns must be fully assimilated into economic policymaking – that is, into the incentive structure that drives decisions.
The outcome at CITES has brought into sharp relief increasing tensions between industrial and environmental interests, as if these were diametrically opposed.
The short-term thinking that impedes environmental conservation efforts today could prove devastating; indeed, to some extent, it already has.
In the absence of effective vaccines or new anti-malarial drugs – and the funding and infrastructure to deliver them – this decision is tantamount to mass murder, a triumph of radical environmental politics over public health.
People now hear only the reflexively anti-pesticide drumbeat of the environmental movement, the lamentable legacy of the benighted Rachel Carson and her acolytes.
In either of these two more optimistic scenarios, one consequence will be the transfer – actual or putative – of considerable sums of money from developed to emerging or developing countries to cover some of their costs for emissions abatement and environmental protection.
The Alberta government – and the oil companies that influence it – would upgrade “tar sands” to “oil sands,” apparently thinking that a better name somehow silences environmental critics.
By offering conditional approval of the Keystone XL, Obama could advance the pipeline’s very genuine diplomatic and economic benefits, while reducing its environmental costs.
Obama’s approval should be conditional on Canada enforcing serious environmental safeguards.
As a result, China’s resources are increasingly being redeployed toward a more balanced portfolio that still includes growth, but adds environmental protection, social welfare, security, and innovation in a wide range of fields that overlap only partly with productivity and income growth.
And Chinese companies’ record in Africa, where they have engaged in an all-out race to control natural resources, with little regard for the niceties of transparency and modern accounting, let alone environmental protection, human rights, and democratic freedoms, is not exactly encouraging.
Then, in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmental scare promoted by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring , foreign aid agencies and UN organizations stopped promoting DDT, and its usage declined.
The environmental movement's supposedly key concept is "sustainable development."
The environmental movement is a new secular Christian creed, for which saving Spaceship Earth has replaced saving souls.
The existence of these health benefits implies a dramatic reduction in the net cost of taking strong action to mitigate climate change – which means that failure to understand their importance could have serious environmental consequences.
Many also permit customers to compare quality ratings, safety data (drawn, for example, from official injury reports), information about the provenance of food, and producers’ environmental and labor practices.
Finally, the move toward open data serves a variety of socially desirable ends, ranging from the reuse of publicly funded research to support work on poverty, inclusion, or discrimination, to the disclosure by corporations such as Nike of their supply-chain data and environmental impact.
And that variability complicates environmental planning in three important ways.
Not only does it make it impossible to see what lies ahead; it is itself also a force of environmental devastation, leaving irreparable damage in its wake.
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