Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, explains why the non-profit will add civil disobedience to its roster of tactics in an effort to curtail the «
global crisis unfolding before our eyes.»
A global crisis unfolds before our eyes and immediate action is required.
Not exact matches
Aug 25, 2015: The «quant meltdown» of August 2007 and the subsequent
unfolding of the
global financial
crisis highlighted the risks of crowded investment strategies.
Many investors think that «Lehman» caused the
global financial
crisis, but the mortgage
crisis was already
unfolding well before that.
The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial
crisis, still
unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «
global political authority.»
Instead of breakthrough that would lead to overcoming the
global economic
crisis, the scenario of the
global economic collapse was predicted by the great thinker and French economist Jacques Attali (2010) who predicts the occurrence of four steps to the
unfolding economic
crisis that erupted in 2008 in United States and that spilled over the world: 1) the public debts become heavier; 2) the failure of the euro and the
global depression; 3) the failure of the Dollar and the return of
global inflation; and, 4) the depression and ruin of Asia.
The synergistic impacts of economic upheaval, energy - related natural resource destruction and changes in our
global climate — are not problems that will manifest later in the 21st century, but are real
crises unfolding today.
«However, human rights tragedies — in Syria, the Congo and South Sudan and a
global refugee
crisis — continue to
unfold today.