Sentences with phrase «damaging than beneficial»

You should also consider that a long - distance relationship will not work for everyone and may be more damaging than beneficial.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

Not exact matches

As you age, your skin loses its ability to produce necessary nutrients to protect it from the damaging effects of the sun's UV rays, and adding berberine to your daily regimen can help in more ways than one; this plant compound has many beneficial medicinal purposes, such as helping to control blood sugar, cholesterol and even heart disease.

Other research on roasted nuts, many of them higher in omega - 6 than peanuts, find they have beneficial effects on oxidative stress and oxidative damage to lipids.

And what if we could move beyond sustainability, which suggests the maintenance of a damaging system, to a truly beneficial and sustaining model for industry that gives our children a delightful prospect, rather than simply a less terrifying one?

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

However it is a major part of a solution that will allow us to cut global emissions by the amounts advocated and be economically beneficial rather than economically damaging.