environmental crisis

 does not threaten to destroy man as such (who is a survivor able to tolerate direct, and, pollution, and noise) but the quality of human life.

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. Rene Dubos

environmental crisis, n.Definitions

environmental crisis