Sentences with phrase «huge human cost»

But while that happens, I think we have to have additional measures in place, or face a huge human cost.

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Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

The economic and human costs to the resource - producing regions were huge.

I didn't start globalization, I can't stop it — except at a huge cost to human development — and I'm not going to waste my time trying.

The human toll is devastating enough but food loss and waste also costs the global economy $ 940 billion USD per year and is a huge environmental problem.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

However, one thing is for sure, there is a huge human and emotional cost for many women and their families when breastfeeding doesn't work out.

Right now, the human, social and political cost of not having acted decisively on the migrant crisis is huge: the Schengen Agreement lies in tatters, thousands of migrants have died, millions are on the move (on average, two thousand per day are arriving in Europe this year so far), and anti-immigration feelings have been inflamed across the continent.

«The socioeconomic costs of alcohol are huge, not to mention the human suffering.

To keep out these invading Titans who eat humans for food, the humans erect huge walls — but at the cost of their freedom in the outside world.

There's a huge disparity regarding the cost and value obtained when you compare a home cooked meal to human - grade ingredients.

The cost of veterinary care is a huge bargain compared to what comparable services cost in human medicine.

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the project.

Should we propose, then, that events of mass human suffering be attributed to prominent environmentalists, because their backwards, anti-human and anti-developmental ideology has created a huge cost?

But the human and social cost is huge and out of kilter with the rest of the government's policy.

The human cost is also huge — increased infant mortality, deteriorating nutrition, health and educational standards, war - induced famines.

Estimates suggest that child maltreatment costs the United States $ 124 billion annually, with per - person lifetime costs higher than or comparable to those of diseases such as a stroke or type 2 diabetes mellitus.18 Childhood maltreatment has thus been referred to as «a human rights violation and a global public health problem [that] incurs huge costs for both individuals and society.»