Sentences with phrase «exact human toll»
As with other neglected diseases, it is difficult to know the exact human toll.
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In addition, both exact an enormous toll in human suffering, mortality and medical costs.
«El Nino directly affects the climate of more than half the planet, often exacting a heavy toll in human life and economic wellbeing,» says Cane.
A touching tale illustrating how a dramatic life change might, temporarily at least, exact a terrible toll on a frail human psyche.
While a host of dangerous climate change impacts have already begun to cause death and destruction and to exact a toll on human populations across the globe — a fact that Mr. Tillerson has been unwilling to acknowledge — there is no doubt that it is our children, their children, and future generations that will bear the brunt of suffering as a result of our increasingly climate - disrupted world.
Global warming exacts an enormous human and economic toll as well.
Upon further scrutiny, each item of clothing exacts a significant toll on the environment, and on human health across the globe.