Sentences with phrase «current economic system»

Is it even possible to address the problem under current economic systems?

That neither republics nor any form of current economic systems can remain stable without growth is self - evident.

The Occupy Wall Street protests hinge on injustice, in particular a malaise with the current economic system that has brought us a tremendous inequality and the rise of the super-rich, or top 1 %.

ICO's has become a billion - dollar industry with a potential to throw over the current economic system and paradigms known to us.

To hear the voices protesting the structural injustices of the current economic system; 2.

The current economic system as a whole, like corporations in particular, fails to take a long - term perspective on economic life.

I am sure this will start a wellneeded change in the current economic system on the earth.

This was a relatively big ship, about the size of the Apollo capsule / service module combo that went to the moon, with a consequently impressive burnup (any resemblance to any current economic system is pure coincidence).

The ideas it promoted — that banks and a wealthy elite have benefited from the current economic system at the expense of the rest of us — have infiltrated the mainstream, with the concept of the 99 % resonating profoundly with people across the country.

Since the recent general election, there has been a noticeable upswing in the number of Conservatives fretting about inequality, material hardship and issues with the current economic system.

Others want to use Brexit to put rocket boosters under our current economic system's insecurities and inequalities, turning Britain into a deregulated corporate tax haven with low wages, limited rights, and cut - price public services in what would be a destructive race to the bottom.

Everything is robust — except the current economic system.

Our current economic system has lifted billions of people and entire nations out of poverty, and provides most people in the developed world with a standard of living that royalty couldn't dream of a century or two ago.

It should put those to shame that in our current economic system no common ethic understanding was heeded, while Europe's finest philosophers, like Immanuel Kant [12], have debated this issue at length.

When looking at our current economic system, I started to notice the similarities between «The Matrix» in the real world.

Traveling in from Appalachia, Brazil, London, and ranging from arrested labor justice campaigners to U.N. climate negotiations youth organizers and a Deutsche Bank analyst, 140 students and young people gathered at the «Transition to a New Economy Conference,» which was an effort to create holistic alternatives to the current economic system — a discourse cracked open by Occupy Wall Street.

First, to Bob NYC: Short term, ecology may not be the best guide to economic gains because our current economic system does not recognize the value of natural services.

A dollar is just a way of assigning value to something, but our current economic system doesn't value less carbon in the atmosphere.

I'm also okay with ditching our current economic system, but until we get around to doing that, lets price carbon, because climate seems urgent to me.

As Natural Capitalism author Paul Hawken said during a speech this week in Toronto, «Our current economic system steals from the future, sells it in the present, and calls it GDP.»

The current economic system against which the «occupation» protest across the industrialised world are directed, both creates and depends on unsustainable consumption, and has driven income and asset inequality within and between nations.

If our current economic system can't cope with such changes, then I think it is well past the time it was jettisoned, anyway.

The oddness comes from stepping outside the assumptions of our current economic system and looking at things from a different set of assumptions (no «set - free» place, of course).