The report has reignited a debate over the benefits to developing countries versus the environmental toll of mining and oil extraction.
Our low taxes on energy lead to dramatic overconsumption of nonrenewable resources, resulting in a staggering environmental toll on the world's ecosystem.
But the environmental toll can be high.
The essay ignores the economic and environmental tolls.
Five years of water profligacy in the face of drought have taken an environmental toll.
Roadbuilding through this area is expensive, and the environmental toll is steep.
A19 The hurricane took a lasting environmental toll.
Deforestation has increased the landslide risk in Haiti and taken an environmental toll.
In later years, local sentiment grew against the mines, when some argued that the environmental toll on the land was too great.
Illegal poaching, deforestation, overfishing, pollution from human sewage, agricultural pesticides, and metal pollutants are taking an increasing environmental toll on the area.
