Sentences with phrase «existential threat to their power»
But it will preview what some experts call a potentially existential threat to the power grids of the United States and other nations, and the populations that depend on them.
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The challenge for Albany reformers is that the most important reforms are almost impossible to win because they are perceived by the powers that be as an existential threat.
Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age
The real threat, the existential threat, is that climate change will gain so much momentum that humanity loses what remaining power it has to slow or stop it, even by reducing carbon emissions to zero.
The powers that be are not prepared for this and the general population is unknowingly being exposed to this existential threat.
If «progressive leaders» of the 1990s really believed that CAGW is an existential threat, then centralizing power to solve that particular problem was not out of character for «progressive leaders».
If you believed there was a real existential threat to the planet, my guess is you probably wouldn't have a problem with strong, concerted government action using centralized power to address it.