Sentences with phrase «human death toll»

With the science understood, with the financial stakes so high and with shocking estimates of the current human death toll from global warming, why does Jeffrey Holmstead make a career working for an industry that is killing people?

Do consider experts suggest the human death toll is likely much higher as...

While the human death toll is staggering itself, we know that wherever there is a public health crisis, economic crisis follows.

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Meanwhile, even before the new attacks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said the death toll in Syria is at least 3,500 since March...

Thus the virulence of a disease transmitted by the human flea should markedly increase, producing a more rapid course of illness and a higher death toll.

This summer, the human toll has been relatively mild, with just 18 cases and one death.

A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys» games on a frozen lake; of «nightcreeping» through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid - fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power - hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow - motion divorce in four seasons.

And the need for improvements has never been clearer than in the past week, as the New York region grappled with the human toll (four deaths and dozens of serious injuries) from the completely avoidable derailment of a speeding Metro - North commuter train one week ago.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

In the 20th century, the human toll of disasters decreased dramatically, with a 92 percent reduction in deaths from the 1930s to the 2000s worldwide.

While a host of dangerous climate change impacts have already begun to cause death and destruction and to exact a toll on human populations across the globe — a fact that Mr. Tillerson has been unwilling to acknowledge — there is no doubt that it is our children, their children, and future generations that will bear the brunt of suffering as a result of our increasingly climate - disrupted world.

Thankfully no humans were killed in Honolulu's Molasses Disaster, but sadly the death toll of aquatic life will likely reach into the tens of thousands.

The human toll is substantial: Since 2010, there have been 33 deaths attributed to private garbage trucks across the city.

These become ever more important as resources become scarce and the quality of human life lessens — just remember the recent factory collapses and death tolls in India as a direct result of our need for new things.