environmental disaster

collocation in English

meaningsofenvironmentalanddisaster

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environmental
adjective
uk
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenvironmental disaster

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Thus, the advent of the large estate was economically undesirable and its impact on tropical forests has been anenvironmentaldisaster.
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Environmentaldisastermakes no distinction, for example, between the sink estate and the affluent suburb.
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Rising to the 100,000 mark by 1950, the city witnessed another decade of rapid growth to reach 180,000 people before running headlong intoenvironmentaldisaster.
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So^er's major contention is that the region is rapidly heading in the direction ofenvironmentaldisasterbecause it is running out of water.
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His vision of the spatial configurations that underpin a socialist utopia adopts the basic impetus of suburban development and turns it into an ideal rather than anenvironmentaldisaster.
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This wall is a human andenvironmentaldisaster, and is also an affront to the values that we hold dear.
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This has been anenvironmentaldisasteras well as a deplorable waste of resources.
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Why would we create such anenvironmentaldisaster?
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It would take only one of those ships to have an accident for there to be anenvironmentaldisaster.
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The idea of unfettered road-only access by heavy vehicles to a fixed link appals me because it would be anenvironmentaldisaster.
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Liberalisation is also the cause of the greatenvironmentaldisasterthat lies ahead unless we hasten to take decisive, enforceable measures to combat global warming.
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To persist with those instruments is nothing less than really 'going for broke' and carrying on along the path to economic, social andenvironmentaldisaster.
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We should not have to wait for a majorenvironmentaldisasterfor this to happen.
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On the contrary, it could become the cause of anenvironmentaldisaster, rather than ensuring environmental protection.
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I now know what a majorenvironmentaldisasterentails.
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The storms were more than just anenvironmentaldisasterfor all of us and an economic problem for the profiteers of the timber sector.
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Intensive cotton farming with excessive use of fertilisers has undoubtedly contributed to thisenvironmentaldisaster.
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It occurs to me that we have anenvironmentaldisasteron a vast scale.
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It is creating widespread housing and planning blight and is regarded by me and the whole community as anenvironmentaldisaster.
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They spoke about poverty and starvation and the primary threat ofenvironmentaldisaster.
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