Sentences with phrase «economically ruinous»

Ironically, Krauthammer is afraid of climate strategies that are «economically ruinous and socially destructive,» and says the greatest form of rationing is food rationing.

Pollution from fossil fuels is economically ruinous in the long term.

Getting Our Priorities Right But rather than asking ourselves why we, or others, aren't doing all we can — we should look at what we are doing to limit our impact while we are living in a system that encourages the exact opposite, and imagine how much those efforts would be multiplied in a world where we paid the true cost of gasoline, where the coal industry was held responsible for its economically ruinous impacts, and where Governments got serious about supporting clean energy.

The Prime Minister, various ministers and the fossil fuel lobby have for years claimed that cutting emissions would be economically ruinous, cause massive job losses and destroy our international competitiveness.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Kyoto process, with its built - in momentum for ever more unrealistic emission reduction targets, is economically ruinous and, hence, politically unsustainable.

And even if May feels comfortable dismissing the combined pressure of Farron, Robertson and Corbyn, she will have a much harder time dismissing the growing voices of British businesses deeply concerned about the government's determination to take the hardest and most economically ruinous form of Brexit.

The challenge in the coming years will be whether the party is prepared to seriously oppose the Tories» economically ruinous immigration cap.