Sentences with phrase «economic consequences even»

It was a reminder that extreme weather has economic consequences even in the richest countries and that climate change — which may usher in even wilder fluctuations — is likely to have a big economic impact.

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As a consequence, knowledge of good economic theory is required to understand what's happening to money and why slower economic progress, or even a prolonged economic contraction, will be an inevitable result.

Although elites in many Third World countries, and in formerly Second World countries as well, have profited from economic globalization and cooperated with it, even they are beginning to recognize its catastrophic consequences.

This claim seems to me to be far more philosophically penetrating, and more disturbing, than the often - heard but more piecemeal criticisms of modern technology's negative environmental, economic, or social - political consequences, or even the critique of present uses of technology as «inhumane» or contrary to basic human values.

And nations primarily using this process are western nations with huge economic resources like U.S. and it could have devastating consequences as seen in multiple cases such as Cuba or North Korea and even Russia.

For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills — humanmade disasters with devastating environmental and economic consequences.

Studies document decreased reaction times, worsened managerial skills, less ability to concentrate, and an increased risk for injury even when alcohol can no longer be detected in the blood... all of which add up to major economic consequences.

«The results of our study find substantial public health and economic consequences with even minor reductions in MMR coverage due to vaccine hesitancy and directly confront the notion that measles is no longer a threat in the United States.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

«Decision - makers worry a lot about economic recessions, but an ecological recession could have even worse consequences — and the biodiversity damage we've had means we're at risk of that happening.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

So this evening, I will approach this subject, the economics of food, in order to answer the following question: What kind of economic and political system would we have as a consequence of making food choices that are truly healthy, fundamentally supportive of optimal development and superb well - being, instead of merely convenient.

It would be one thing if the rise in profit margins was even a mystery, but margins have remained highly cyclical (reflecting identical cyclical movements in household and government saving), and have remained tightly related to deficits in other sectors, and must be as a consequence of economic equilbrium.

The «scariness» over home loans was the widespread realization that the rules of the game had been changed permanently, by the combination of an economic downturn plus national (or even international) financial policies designed to enforce low inflation rates - with the consequence that «being underwater» had been changed from a short term problem to a long - term one.

Even Trump's signature promise to build a giant wall along the Mexican border, as well as clamp down on immigration, could carry economic consequences if the policies put a dent in the supply of U.S. labour.

Even if scientists are completely unable to retard or reverse the environmental consequences of global warming, thanks to decades of warning the economy can greatly adjust to minimize the economic costs of those environmental consequences.

A clue to the author's motivation comes on the first page of the article, where he writes, «The switch of world powers first to decreasing the use of fossil fuel and then to carbon - free energy within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol may lead to economic collapse for Russia as a consequence of the reduction and, probably, even loss of the possibility to sell oil and natural gas on the world market.»

Climate change is the consequence of our psychological predisposition to ignore uncomfortable truths and our obsession with economic growth — even the smallest reduction in the rate of growth is enough for a scare campaign that paralyses government.

Our ability to quantify the economic consequences of «too much, too soon» is far better than our ability to quantify the impacts that might arise from «too little, too late» — to the extent that we can not even define what this means!

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

46 Lastly, in any event, the case - law shows that the importance of the objective of consumer protection, which therefore includes the protection of air passengers, may justify even substantial negative economic consequences for certain economic operators (Nelson and Others, paragraph 81, and case - law cited).

These developments accentuate the need to monitor the well - being of the most disadvantaged children, but income inequality also has far - reaching consequences for society, harming educational attainment, key health outcomes and even economic growth.

More importantly, the new JCT numbers illustrate a point that housing advocates have made about proposals to raise taxes on those who benefit from the MID: there's less money there than is claimed, even putting aside any economic consequences that would result from changes to long - standing policy.