Sentences with phrase «economic catastrophe on»

And it's also not about trying to do something about it — it will be an economic catastrophe on one side or won't have any effect on the other.

There is still a huge amount of unapologetic collective responsibility for Blair's Iraq and Brown's economic catastrophe on the Labour front bench.

Not exact matches

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Boris Johnson has again attacked the government's handling of the disputed third runway at Heathrow, claiming the UK is on track for «economic catastrophe» as a result.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Furthermore, the alternative (of letting Greece default and the Euro disintegrate) is untenable — it would not only mean economic catastrophe but would represent a political failure of the EU on such a scale that it might possibly herald its demise.

Understanding the factors that lead clever people to make bad decisions is beginning to shed light on many of society's biggest catastrophes, including the recent economic crisis.

Looking at the largest economic losses, the year 2011 with major earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand is the highest loss to date: «with around 335 billion USD direct damage, the Tohoku earthquake - tsunami - nuclear sequence on 11 March 2011 is the highest single - event natural catastrophe loss,» says James Daniell.

The Big Short examines the 2008 economic collapse, and how it was spurred by predatory financial institutions taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams of succeeding in America, from the point of view of the banks that caused the catastrophe; The Florida Project shows us the swampy, brightly - colored, half - decayed Florida landscape briefly glimpsed in The Big Short, and centers on the very people who are struggling the most financially as a result of the greed of others and the desire to achieve the vaunted American Dream.

The students have also compared the current economic crisis to the Great Depression, and the ties that both financial catastrophes had on the town of York.

Having arrived at the age where I need (but given the economic predicament can not draw on) my retirement savings, my question is not so much how can we hedge against inflation but how can we protect ourselves against out - and - out economic catastrophe.

«This has an adverse effect on homeowners who do pay their mortgages, and the after - effects of more defaults and more price collapse could be economic catastrophe.»

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

I hate to think of the horrible consequences that an economic catastrophe of these gigantic proportions that are being suggested could have on society as a whole.

Construction of a planned dam on the Kura (Mtkvari) River in the Turkish province of Ardahan would redirect much of the river's water from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, leading to «an ecological and economic catastrophe» in Georgia, officials from the Georgian Green Party are cited as claiming in a recent article by the Georgian publication Democracy & Freedom Watch.

The front page of the NYTimes tells the family of humanity that we are on the verge of a global economic catastrophe.

For instance it argues that economic growth is no longer a possibility without environmental degradation and catastrophe, and calls for a new model of economics, focussing on happiness instead.

Additionally primary responsibility for climate catastrophe falls on those who bear substantial responsibility by dint of economic positioning, scientific obfuscation, political patronage, political influence or political position as to the direction of our political - economic system, where that system effects our society's energy and land use and therefore climate impacts.

There has been one reason for the reluctance of some of the rich countries of the world to reduce their emissions and help to stave off environmental catastrophe — the perceived impact of reducing emissions on the rate of economic growth and especially the growth of a handful of powerful industries.

Because of the Climategate scientists fraudulent science, and their propaganda of imminent world catastrophes if nothing was done about CO2 emissions immediately, it caused all the focus to be on a questionable, nebulous problem with an impossible political / economic solution, instead of actually focusing on real world climate and environment problems that could be solved.

The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long - Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones

«The American president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that the failure to protect the climate inflicts on his country and the world through natural catastrophes like Katrina,» Germany's environmental minister, Jurgen Trittin, wrote in an opinion piece printed Aug. 30 in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.

Ultimately, this is a referendum not just on the ongoing chronic economic catastrophe that has been the Greek reality for the past 5 years, but a referendum on Europe as a cultural and historical institution and Europe as a political entity, the EU, and Greece's place within both.

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