Sentences with phrase «global economic contraction»

Richard Douthwaite argues that a similarly flawed judgement is evident in the assumption that the economy will recover, and advises on how to prepare for a future of global economic contraction.

Hopefully, he's rational enough to realize that his avoidable actions would trigger a massive global economic contraction which, even if the United States is less hurt than others, history would not look kindly upon.

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

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Singapore downgraded its forecasts on economic growth and exports for 2016 after confirming a contraction in output in the third quarter, raising the risk of a recession amid fresh uncertainty around global trade under U.S. President - elect Donald Trump.

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

The global pursuit of 3 tons of carbon must be a reflection not of economic contraction and global depression, but of economic growth resulting in ecological improvement.

We will not bend global carbon emissions rapidly downward through even the most humane vision of voluntary economic contraction and global wealth redistribution.

And second, the math just doesn't add up; even in the most ideal circumstances, voluntary economic contraction in the developed world can't drive global carbon emissions towards zero.

Any real - world scenario that resembles Roberts» proposal for «voluntary economic contraction» in the developed world is likely to have far more modest outcomes and will certainly lack the perfectly equal distribution of global wealth in this example.