GDP increases with each environmental calamity, each polluting activity and then again in repairing the damage.

According to the artist himself, much of his early work was inspired by a sense of looming environmental calamity.

In fact to avoid environmental calamity we need to cut our current fossil fuel use by at least 50%.

But using nuclear power simply trades one environmental calamity for another.

The loss of this lake would be an environmental calamity of the first order.

The environmental calamities and administrative neglect that have plagued much of the country are abundantly evident in Gros Morne, a town of 20,000.

Kuwaiti officials say the country is suffering an environmental calamity from burning oil wells that may be costlier than the material losses of the war.

We cannot delay planning for the environmental and human calamities that lie ahead.

So much for science, and how helpful it can be in these times of environmental calamities.

But a chapter skewering the Weather Channel for its advertiser-friendly view of a climate unaffected by global warming and other man-made environmental calamities hits home.