China's economy has grown 5, 000 percent over the past 27 years, and that has happened at the expense of the environment.

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In less than three decades the country has gone from being a food importer to a global breadbasket, exporting everything from soybeans to sugar, beef and orange juice, often at the expense of the environment.

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Greed, survival of the fittest, ego and the exploitation of natural resources at the expense of the environment are things that the Arhuac cannot comprehend and suffer with patience.

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There, consumers want to believe their wood has not come to them at the expense of the environment and will pay as much as 50% more for certified stuff.

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North Norfolk District Council has simply been pursuing a political agenda to support big business at the direct expense of the environment and the householders of North Norfolk.

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"I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: Don't just chase GDP growth, don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren, and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment, " Chen told Reuters.

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But it would be easy to move too far (once again) from the research role, at the expense of the academic rigour necessary in a university environment.

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This is true even when serving the interests of shareholders comes at the expense of its workers, community, or the environment.

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Neither the Eurocentric right nor the multicultural left want to abandon the Americentric environment in which baseball, American football and basketball flourish at the expense of foreign sports.

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