Sentences with phrase «devastating human cost»

The report acknowledges the devastating human cost to the children involved and their families and carers in addition to the NHS staff involved, and highlights the significant financial cost to the NHS when litigation is pursued, contributing to pressure on funding and diverting much needed resources away from front line care.

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The human toll is devastating enough but food loss and waste also costs the global economy $ 940 billion USD per year and is a huge environmental problem.

The high cost of weather When the wrong weather hits the wrong region at the wrong time, the human and economic consequences can be devastating.

I wrote about «The Varied Costs of Catastrophe» after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, comparing the human and financial losses to those from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Superstorm Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan hit a year and hemispheres apart — with Sandy battering cities up and down the eastern US in 2012 and Haiyan devastating the Philippines in 2013 — but together they made the real human cost of climate change painfully apparent to anyone with eyeballs.

We have enough experience already with the devastating human and economic costs of climate change to know that we have to start living within our carbon means.

«Too expensive to act»: Some contrarians admit that global warming exists, is caused by humans, and indeed has harmful effects, but assert that it is too expensive to mitigate global warming (they ignore the principle of risk management, use economic scenarios that ignore benefits of new technologies, assume a high «discount rate», and ignore devastating future economic costs of unbridled global warming).