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Meanwhile those excluded from the environmental movement are often the same people who face the greatest threats from climate change and have the most to lose from environmental degradation.

Hurricanes and floods, droughts and fires, environmental degradation, increased poverty and fierce global resource competition are just some of the likely potential harms.

These contributions will help offset some of the degradation of insect habitat.

They don’t want to show human brutishness and degradation in their museums.

However, despite this support, over the course of 2020 I experienced a material degradation of my overall mental health, which resulted in a period of hospitalization in August.

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There are always examples of degradation, but there are very few examples of ecosystems left that are that pristine.

Digestion is a technical term which relates the mechanical, enzymatic, and chemical degradation of food.

“Since this past November, you have seen the slow and steady drumbeat of degradation,” Steele says.

And this of course raises the specter of Republican lies that make their own contribution to the degradation of public discourse.

So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag.

It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

But Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.

Come to our aid then; the morning of our Redemption from degradation, adorns the horizon.

Raise the mothers above the level of degradation, and the offspring is elevated with them.

He watches the budding of evil instincts, the ignoble habits idly acquired in degradation.

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On this page you'll find 811 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to degradation, such as: abasement, affront, chagrin, condescension, disgrace, and dishonor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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