Sentences with phrase «for future catastrophes»

Trusted Choice ® independent insurance agents can discuss how the business and homeowners climate have changed in the wake of these disasters and how prepared the area is for future catastrophes.

Here are some of the lessons we've learned from 2017, and what they suggest for how to prepare for future catastrophes.

Not exact matches

To help prevent future catastrophes, worker advocates have recently promoted an international accord that sets mandatory safety standards for garment factories.

I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.

First, on the negative side, it is quite likely that there will be some sort of rampant disease, catastrophe, or war which will serve as the final catalyst for the future changes.

The poet describes a «future laden with catastrophe» and the requirement for a «sense of open space ahead of the individual and the human species.»

Cuomo brought local planners in to Albany for a progress report on how the post-Irene, Lee and Sandy rebuilding is going and on still - pending plans to protect against future catastrophes.

While careful not to assign blame, the report has a series of recommendations to prevent similar catastrophes in the future, including screening U.N. personnel from cholera - endemic areas for the presence of Vibrio cholerae before they leave home and giving them a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

Climate change has become not only a problem for future generations but a current event that portends catastrophe.

For example, we can decide that impinge of the right to the privacy in order to gain important information about terrorist attacks and stop possible future catastrophe and protect people, is justified.

Stay tuned for our own analysis of the Trigger's final rules, and what they might mean for the future of K - 12 education in California — arguably our most pressing catastrophe.

I'd just returned from a short trip, four days away on business, and I swear that Agustina was fine when I left, I swear nothing odd was going on, or at least nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing to suggest what would happen to her while I was gone, except for her own premonitions, of course, but how was I to believe her when Agustina is always predicting some catastrophe; I've tried everything to make her see reason, but she won't be swayed, insisting that ever since she was little she's had what she calls the gift of sight, or the ability to see the future, and God only knows the trouble that's caused us.

In other words, there is no point in saving for the future 30 years from now if you are unprepared for a catastrophe tomorrow.

If you don't save up enough money for the future, you are bound to end up in a catastrophe.

ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch said: «Barring a catastrophe with lorries bringing stock into stores going AWOL, we can only see that sales number going up and up,» he also had high hopes for the future adding, «The Bank Holiday weekend should be a particularly fruitful period — but it will be interesting to see how long the stock lasts as people rush to stores.»

In an installation comprising fragments of body parts made of wood, clay, and stone scattered in foetal positions, Kiri Dalena's Monument for a Present Future (2013) recalls the ash - covered bodies in the wake of Mt. Vesuvius's eruption in A.D. 79, suggesting that the loss of lives will always count as the greatest tragedy in the aftermath of catastrophes or atrocities.

One doesn't need to certify future coral reef destruction to realize that overpopulation is bad for human health and dignity, not to mention a catastrophe for wild living systems.

Our generation's response to this challenge will be judged by history, for if we fail to meet it — boldly, swiftly and together — we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe.

But utter catastrophe might be avoided, and future meetings would press for ever stronger pledges.

None of its core scenarios for the future of energy provide a reasonable chance that the world will avoid climate catastrophe.

It is only a hobby, I do not take responsibility for any climatic catastrophe past, present or future.

I don't think they understand that we will take our chances for now with a highly unpredictable outcome of the future climate compared with the utterly predictable destruction and catastrophe that will result from this totalitarian course of demagoguery, fear - mongering and lying which arises from the human character's weakness for the love of power.

The best that can be stated so far for the skeptical side is that the actual data - supported evidence for an anthropogenic climate catastrophe past, present, or future is weak, not that «CO2 has no effect» or «we're about to start catastrophically cooling».

The best that can be said for the catastrophist side is that there is at least some evidence that future warming or changes in sea level or ocean chemistry could be catastrophic, even though this evidence is far from conclusive and is actively contradicting most models that predict catastrophe at present.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

Second, they reserved their most potent criticism for those whom they called prophets of doom — individuals who appeared overly emotional and irrational in their imaginings of future catastrophe.

And the peculiar psychology of people who mask their fear of the unknown (and the future) in a longing for catastrophe.

So «researchers» merely have to plug in estimates of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, presto, out come 3 - 8 degrees of dangerous warming and climate change, and a host of «scenarios» for climate catastrophes, vanished species and dead people.

AFP: Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to avert climate catastrophe.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

... The Environmentalist narrative of catastrophe, doom, and apocalypse, once given superficial scientific plausibility (in that science can not exclude the possibility of such things happening — which it never could), provides doubt and uncertainty about the security of the future, which in turn provides political momentum and legitimacy for environmental policies.

By all means let's put in place anything effective to reduce CO2 emissions... but if we don't learn from the past, and if keep pumping up ideas of future catastrophes, as in the biofuel case the environment will be worse for it, people will suffer for nothing and the usual suspects will get rich.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), passed by Congress in November 2002 and renewed in 2007, provides a federal backstop for future terrorist acts, making it easier for insurers to calculate their maximum losses for such a catastrophe, and thus price the coverage.

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