Sentences with phrase «about avoiding catastrophe»

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

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«It is time to move on from the fake debate over whether climate change is real or poses a risk, and onto the worthy debate about what actions we must take to avoid a climate catastrophe,» he said in an email.

Who's to Blame To avoid price gouging, consumer advocate Newton and scientist Mills urge insurance companies to be transparent about the models they use for setting premiums — specifically how they factor in catastrophes believed to have been brought on by climate change.

«We are talking about the big world of avoiding climate catastrophe, but we are talking about the immediate world of people living in Riverside, Los Angeles and other places,» Brown said.

But rather than being about «ethics», stories about how one must behave in order to avoid a catastrophe are no more than moral blackmail.

We avoid most of the catastrophe, and have a newfound sense of responsibility about our planet.

People may even be willing to tolerate a significant decline in living standards if it is in the interests of avoiding catastrophe, but we won't get there if we don't actually have the conversation about what life would be like in 40 % - by - 2020 Australia.

Since I was a teenager, I have been concerned about the global warming crisis we are facing and I have been passionate about finding ways to help the world help itself and avoid tremendous climate catastrophe.

In my initial response to you, I stated, in part: «So, given how far down the climate change road we have gone already, we have two main choices if we want to devise a plan (based on 1 C target) that will avoid the ultimate catastrophe: make outlandish assumptions about demand reduction, or make outlandish assumptions about carbon removal.

So, given how far down the climate change road we have gone already, we have two main choices if we want to devise a plan (based on 1 C target) that will avoid the ultimate catastrophe: make outlandish assumptions about demand reduction, or make outlandish assumptions about carbon removal.

If Australia is truly serious about avoiding climate catastrophe we are going to need to move towards a zero - emissions economy.

Since the housing crisis was brought about by borrowing catastrophes, these new lender guidelines being implemented under The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Qualified Mortgage (QM) are being put in place to avoid the housing meltdown from happening again.