How will we feed, shelter, and educate three billion more people by 2050 in
an era of accelerating climate change, resource scarcity and environmental degradation?
But just as these financial elephants began trampling on one another in their rush to equities, we entered
an era of accelerating inflation and higher interest rates.
And in
an era of accelerating rises in sea levels those effects «may be catastrophic», says Pethick, «causing inundation of coastal flood defences».
Bandwagon «wave - of - the - future» theology has proven to be a very hazardous occupation in
an era of accelerating change, especially when the continuities of history are not as evident as its discontinuities, and when the media focus the public eye upon society's distortions rather than its solidities?
We live in
an era of accelerated innovation, and everywhere we look companies are chasing new ideas to stay afloat.
In
the era of accelerated innovation and crashing Moats it behooves on investors to monitor their stocks and usually sell when price goes above intrinsic value.
Not exact matches
Growth did, in the end,
accelerate to a projected 2.3 percent versus 1.5 percent — although it's hard to say how much
of that was due to Trump -
era policies.
The purpose
of Tesla, SpaceX (Musk's space - exploration company), and SolarCity, the solar - panel firm that recently merged with Tesla, as a group
of businesses is to
accelerate humanity's departure from the fossil - fuel
era.
At the beginning
of his presentation, he stressed that the mission
of his companies is to
accelerate humanity's exit from the fossil fuel
era and to create more sustainable lifestyles.
With that track record, the New T - Mobile will
accelerate long - term economic stimulus for the U.S. in the 5G
era — ultimately leading to the creation
of thousands
of American jobs and supporting business opportunities for the U.S. economy.
• Greater economic freedom
accelerates the rate
of creative destruction, again, as it always has in the modern
era.
Globalization is the
era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which
accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation
of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers
of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction
of environment.
The concrete policies
of particular administrations can no doubt slow or
accelerate this massive historical trend marking the end
of an
era of Western dominance; no one American administration, however, has created that trend, nor probably can any fundamentally alter its course.
In Josh Robin's series, Sandy: Five Years Later, NY1 examines what has been done to better protect the five boroughs, as experts believe dangerous weather events will
accelerate in this
era of climate change and rising seas.
At the dawn
of a new
era, the speed
of S&T development is
accelerating at a stunning pace, the knowledge economy is taking shape, international competition is growing increasingly fierce, and, accordingly, international cooperation is further expanding.
The need to
accelerate the adoption
of interdisciplinary approaches is even more compelling in an
era with increasingly complex problems, vast data sets, and powerful research tools.
A proposal to
accelerate brain research may someday mark 2013 as the dawn
of a golden
era in neuroscience.
In addition, development
of civilization and technologies has
accelerated further reduction
of genetic diversity in the modern
era.
In our own
era, another revolution began to unfold 15 years ago with the discovery
of the
accelerating universe.
«Hopefully this first observation will
accelerate the construction
of a global network
of detectors to enable accurate source location in the
era of multi-messenger astronomy,» says David McClelland, professor
of physics and director
of the Centre for Gravitational Physics at the Australian National University.
Especially in an
era of big data, with an unprecedented volume
of genomic and associated data being generated, it is critical that data are shared with the scientific community and healthcare professionals to
accelerate scientific discovery and to inform clinical care.
The booklet hailed the beginning
of a new
era, noting, «What wilbe different in the 1990's is that the pace
of change wilbe
accelerated like never before.
During this
era of «drill and grill,»
accelerated learning, overdrive consumer life styles, excessive testing, and a great decrease
of play in the educational curriculum, playful teaching practices are sorely needed.
Providing a moment
of repose in our
accelerated era, poetry is an enduring art.
... the rate
of climate change reported and rate
of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure
of any geologic
era... which seem to be
accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disruption.
# 103 (cont)... the rate
of climate change reported and rate
of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure
of any geologic
era... which seem to be
accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disruption.
And as the adoption
of the cloud
accelerates, so does the electrical consumption
of the datacenters that fuel this new
era.
But if it succeeds, it could help
accelerate a new, green
era of urban stormwater management around the U.S. and beyond.
Furthermore, we see that any
accelerating sea - ice growing trend in the Antarctic is in line with this region's prehistoric behaviour, which has been to thrive during some
of Earth's hottest
eras.
Over the satellite
era, the rate
of spring snow loss is similar to that
of late - summer Arctic sea ice extent, with each at an
accelerated pace over the past decade.
Wouldn't this contradict a major point
of the «consensus,» that industrial -
era C02 caused
accelerated warming sometime AFTER 1900?
The underlying net anthropogenic warming rate in the industrial
era is found to have been steady since 1910 at 0.07 — 0.08 °C / decade, with superimposed AMO - related ups and downs that included the early 20th century warming, the cooling
of the 1960s and 1970s, the
accelerated warming
of the 1980s and 1990s, and the recent slowing
of the warming rates.
Having lived in Manhattan for over 30 years, I've watched and experienced the extreme economic and demographic changes first hand, changes which
accelerated greatly during the Wall Street - and development - friendly
era of Mayor Bloomberg.
Moreover, the rate at which this machine itself will keep evolving is
accelerating — Richard Susskind has stated that this exponential growth in information technology places us «at the doorstep
of an
era of change that is more profound and radical, in terms
of technical progress, than humanity has ever seen.»
This new
era will integrate the technological legal innovation framework with the systems change approach regime to
accelerate improvements in the delivery
of legal services while reducing the barriers that prevent equal access to justice.»
«Auctions will help put distressed properties back into the market faster and get things back to normal, just as they did in the Resolution Trust Corp.
era that followed the savings - and - loan crisis,» says David Gilmore, managing director
of Sperry Van Ness
Accelerated Marketing, an Atlanta - based venture that specializes in asset disposition through auctions.