Furthermore, continuing high rates of unemployment and weak wage growth have prevented most workers from adding to their savings. (fortune.com)
They looked at each of those conditions through, first, a business - as - usual lens that assumes a lack of international climate - policy action with continued high rates of greenhouse gas emissions and, second, an optimistic scenario of reduced emissions with climate change policy interventions. (sciencedaily.com)
Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development. (seedmagazine.com)