According to a 2014 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, majorities of most major American religious group — including 82 percent of Jewish Americans, 76 percent of black Protestants, and 69 percent of Hispanic Catholics — agree that dealing with climate change now will help prevent
future economic problems.
But conservatives should still make a serious critique of the country's current and
future economic problems.
Not exact matches
Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments in confirmation hearings in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of
future problems, such as an
economic bubble.
A more sensible approach would recognize the increasing
problem of concentration of
economic power, the decline in worker power, and dangerous underinvestment in America's
future.
ECONOMIC CHEMOTHERAPY By Udayan Gupta Global Finance sat down with economist Robert Brusca, head of consultancy FAO Economics, to discuss the global outlook, the
future of Greece and the
problem with current - account surpluses and deficits.
The build - up of foreign currency reserves during the first part of the cycle is therefore not a sign of strength; it is a sign of a
future «price inflation»
problem and a warning that the superficial
economic strength is a smokescreen hiding widespread malinvestment.
Those
problems» which include the morally reprehensible habit of loading mountains of unpayable debt onto the backs of
future generations» can not be addressed without sustained
economic growth that dramatically lowers the unemployment rate.
Given the underlying
problems facing Russia's leadership — predictions of
future economic crises and growing discontent with systemic corruption — the regime was particularly sensitive to this opposition.
«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the
future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national
problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward
economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»
Its report, «The
future of investigative journalism», aims to provide guidance on how to address the contemporary
problems the industry faces, including regulatory,
economic and legal.
Whoever's in charge come May 8th, unless they put climate change at the heart of their programme for office the UK will be building up huge
economic and ecological
problems for the
future.
«This can not be a
problem that is swept under the rug — this is an
economic and social imperative that is critical to our
future.
I am running for governor because I believe we can again fix our current
economic problems and pave the way to fiscal health and a brighter, better
future for our children.
Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy
future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental,
economic, and political
problems caused by our current consumption.
«The Administration's budget request stifles innovation,
future economic growth, and job creation,» said Dr. Robert Gropp, co — executive director of The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) in Washington, D.C. «These deep cuts to scientific research and education programs will negatively impact our ability to improve public health and solve environmental
problems for years to come.»
This will fix all
economic growth and employment
problems for the foreseeable
future, while simultaneously reducing demand for resources.
The film centers on a society in the near
future that attempts to solve its
economic problems by shrinking people — presumably because...
However, Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), argued: «We agree that high - quality careers advice is vital to young people and the
economic future of the country, but it is pointless to introduce yet another accountability measure without first addressing these
problems.»
«We agree that high - quality careers advice is vital to young people and the
economic future of the country, but it is pointless to introduce yet another accountability measure without first addressing these
problems,» he said.
Despite significant improvements in some countries and sectors, the global debt
problem persists, posing a major risk to
future economic growth.
Our three - year strategy (2015 - 17) builds on our current core strengths, anticipates a changing social and
economic environment and aims to transform the
futures of even more people who are in, or at risk of
problem debt.
The significance of the new social insurance program was that it sought to address the long - range
problem of
economic security for the aged through a contributory system in which the workers themselves contributed to their own
future retirement benefit by making regular payments into a joint fund.
The exhibition brings together nine perspectives that address some of the urgent
problems that have been posted by the crisis of credibility in political agreements and the promises of
economic systems; the difficulty of imagining new social structures; and the erosion of institutions, urban projects and the ways in which the
future is conceived.
This is a time when critical choices must be made about
future sources and uses of energy and the realization that all potential energy sources, quite apart from the carbon dioxide
problem, have serious social,
economic and environmental liabilities.
... These are not
future problems, but rather urgent matters, according to [lead author Will] Steffen, who said that the
economic boom since 1950 and the globalized economy have accelerated the transgression of the boundaries.
The
economic uniqueness of the climate - change
problem is not just that today's decisions have difficult - to - reverse impacts that will be felt very far out into the
future, thereby straining the concept of time discounting and placing a heavy burden on the choice of an interest rate.
Thus a theoretical
problem that may emerge thousands of years into the
future becomes an immediate danger that can only be dealt with now, and in the way preferred by the alarmist narrative: ceasing the industrial and
economic progress that would afford those coastal communities a better way of life, as well as better protection from the elements.
Michael # 29, the classical economists of the 18th and 19th centuries (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill) all wrestled with the
problem of limits to growth and came up with scenarios for the human
future ranging from extreme pessimism (Malthus) to optimism (John Stuart Mill's expectation that at a certain stage of
economic development human society would cease to grow in material scale and reach a «stationary state» where the emphasis would be on qualitative human, social and cultural development.
These
problems have arisen because the environmental movement has been hijacked by left - wing radicals who are advocating policies that impair the Western world's
economic future for no or even negative environmental gains and promoting legally questionable government actions whose purpose government can not achieve in the way proposed.
Congress and the next Administration should reverse course on climate policy in order to unchain
economic potential and allow for the world to adapt to the real
problems the
future may bring.
Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these
problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an
economic golden age will be looked on by
future generations as evil.
I think that the secular factors (population decline and
economic development) will already change
future CO2 and that governments would only worsen the
problems (I'm from the gummit, I'm here to help).
Similarly, the
problems that people face in a warmer
future are contingent on there being no political,
economic or technological developments.
One of the most important
economic and political points arising from climate change is uncertainty about how seriously
future governments will respond to the
problem.
Sugar - based ethanol is here for the foreseeable
future in Brazil because it solves a lot of political and
economic problems in Brazil's underdeveloped Northeast.
The continuing drop in jobless claims — considered a signal of
future economic trends — shows that the
problem with today's job market isn't layoffs but rather the modest and unsteady hiring at companies.