Sentences with phrase «future economic harms»

Actually, the speaker is referring to an action by the NY Attorney General demanding certain companies put disclosures in their investment materials about the future economic harms from global warming.

Not exact matches

There is, however, a line between giving your child the gift of unique name and possibly harming his / her social and economic future.

One of the Australian government's key economic advisers, the Productivity Commission, has called for a review of the future of anti-dumping protection, warning that it is harming the Australian economy.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

That's a standard bit of economic modeling prestidigitation, meant to account for the fact that people value present goods (or harms) more highly than future ones.

Currently set at $ 36 per ton of carbon dioxide, the metric is produced using a complex, and contentious, set of models estimating a host of future costs to society related to rising temperatures and seas, then using a longstanding economic tool, a discount rate, to gauge how much it is worth today to limit those harms generations hence.

David Roberts, now writing on climate and energy at Vox, wrote a much - cited column for Grist a few years ago dissecting economic calculations used to determine how much it is worth today to limit climate - related harms generations in the future.

To be plainly clear, econonomic neodenialism — as advocated here on Climate Etc by posters like Peter Lang, Latimer Alder, and Tomas Milanovic — is morally wrong because of evil harms done to children by short - sighted future discounting associated to economic neodenialism.

It's pretty easy to imagine agricultural and economic challenges consequent to climate change causing comparable harm in the not - too - distant future.