Sentences with phrase «issues like global»

YouTube and blogs have been used to foment falsehoods or distort arguments around issues like global warming.

... we have political extremists — some of them in our own country — who would have the United States evade and ignore tough issues like global climate change, ozone depletion, or any number of threats to human and environmental health.

I believe we can't possibly get to a better place, in debates over issues like global warming, until we understand why getting facts across turns out to be so difficult.

My recent post on this question mainly focused on the American Geophysical Union, creating an extraordinary flow of comments that some sociologists are currently examining for clues to how and why humans sort into passionate camps on issues like global warming.

Not surprisingly, Joe Romm, «America's fiercest climate blogger,» has assaulted my piece examining ways in which scientists might make scientific information on issues like global warming more impactful.

Mr. Chamie notes that the relatively enormous thirst for energy, food and other resources from Americans, when compared with that of the average world citizen, gives outsize importance to issues like global warming and to American trends.

I explained to the reporter that we discussed issues like global warming and she indicated that she understood the problem and had finally become convinced of its reality.

How can we become an aware citizen of the world by contributing our best to save it from issues like global warming and health diseases?

This is especially true for eco-friendly singles who care about important issues like global warming and pollution.

«The findings of this paper demonstrate that long - term issues like global sea - level rise are certainly a threat to countries like Bangladesh.

That's what I do in every other issue like global warming, vaccines, etc..

A study proposes that fear - based messaging about an issue like global warming may encourage the audience to dismiss it.

One thing about a wicked issue like global warming: The bad news is it's so complicated that it's really hard.

As John Holdren of Harvard and the Woods Hole Research Center put it to me one time, a quiet message on a looming issue like global climate disruption can be interpreted as «satisfaction with the status quo.»

Not exact matches

, said teens may also be interested in global service opportunities around an issue like human trafficking.

Daniel Horgan, executive director of the youth service enterprise generationOn, said teens may also be interested in global service opportunities around an issue like human trafficking.

In addition to global regulatory issues like PCI DSS and regional compliance challenges like SEPA, cross-border retailers need to ensure compliance with local regulations for the various countries in which they do business.

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

It seemed like The Eiffel Tower or Paris» finest restaurants werent enough to distract them from a brilliant idea trapped under the grey clouds, because next thing you know, these two «uber» kids were already brainstorming, thinking about ways to solve this global issue of finding cars at the right place, on the right time.

The optimistic longer - term projections that have been issued by the three main reporting agencies as well as from most Wall Street analysts are looking more and more like they may be off the mark as the current fundamentals are in no way suggesting the global oil market is already in a rebalancing pattern.

Those I talked with didn't seem concerned about a «Grexit» and instead were more worried about local issues like taxi strikes and port closures, reinforcing that Greece's direct impact on Europe and the global economy appears to be small and that the recent Greek drama may not be a reason to avoid investing in the region.

For hunger, like no other issue, goes right to the heart of global injustice.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

Here, Nyhan decided to apply it in an unrelated context: Could recalling a time when you felt good about yourself make you more broad - minded about highly politicized issues, like the Iraq surge or global warming?

«Organic 3.0» is about developing a new collective vision for the organic sector and like - minded movements such as agroecology, fair trade, slow food, and others, to actively engage with major global issues.

«As the packaging industry converges on this global issue, more and more solutions like this resealable system will be required.»

WILMINGTON, Del., March 23, 2015 — As the tri-annual NPE opens today in Orlando, Fla, many of the 60,000 who registered are dealing with issues like the environment and sustainability, global competition and unstable oil prices, according to a survey of nearly 800 plastics industry professionals.

In case you haven't heard, the popularity of «Pulses» in the food industry is dramatically on the rise, not only for their nutritional benefit, but also as the leading front - runner to help solve global food issues like food security, drought protection and agricultural sustainability.

Investments and collaborations to promote environmental sustainability: Through global alliances such as the Trash Free Seas Alliance, founding of the bio-PET NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and investments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmental issues.

The Teenage Survey Highlights They told us about the big global issues which matter most to them and that if they had the power they'd like to change.

Equally worrying was the President's failure to touch on Ghana's position on major Geo - political happenings like the situation in the US regarding immigration bans, recent developments in some theatres of conflict around the world, the Israeli Palestinian issue, terrorism in the West African sub-region and a myriad of global events on which Ghana's voice must be heard.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

Sagarin hopes that the results, appearing in the 26 October issue of Science, will encourage others to look for environmental responses to global warming in data sets collected informally by individuals or communities, like a bird - watcher's records.

Assessment analysis confronts complex issues, ranging from government regulations and corruption to the ethics of publicity, including how to inform media of something like the global warming slowdown, which may not have actually happened.

«With respect to global issues like hydrocarbon exploration, fresh water, global climate change, this is the important stuff.

From economic impacts in cities like San Diego and London to crops in Memphis to global greenhouse gases, the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) lays out a dynamic, complex view of how issues of sustainability reach across the world — and then impacts rush back.

In addition, the Board calls for an annual Global Sustainable Development Report — a flagship UN publication like the Human Development Report — that monitors progress, identifies critical issues and root causes of challenges, and offers potential ways forward.

He points out that consumer pressure might have an impact on the practices of global companies, just as it did on issues like child labor and worker safety.

That it, like carbon dioxide, is essential for plant growth is surely utterly irrelevant to the issue of anthropogenic global warming.

It doesn't mean it's winter everywhere else, global sites like Nordstrom, Revolve and Shopbop cater for a global market so finding summer clothes in our British winter is no issue.

You can participate in discussion forums that are not confined only to the date, place, people like to discuss important global issues.

Learn about menstrual health and get our take on global menstrual issues, feminism, and what it's like being a social business.

But, how to create a «Global Citizenship Education» that respect the defining historic - cultural characteristics of each community, and at the same time, develop a critical consciousness that addresses common issues like sustainable development?

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency.

The first read through involves checking global issues like headings and content blocks, which is somewhat like what Shawn does but for non-fiction.

For those among who would have liked less global and more local in the territorial rights issue, it's time to put that debate behind us and work with the new rules that will clearly be predicated on global editions.

Through her writing she takes a global look at issues that affect women and crafts authentic, well - rounded characters and plots so rich that are so relatable they feel like personal friends to the readers.

Under sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns, we have the bonds issued by Chinese government bonds, the four major policy banks in China, as well as the other global central bank, like Korean Development Bank.

While Trump's stance on issues like the Keystone XL pipeline bodes well for the oil and gas industry, the risks posed by a U.S. - led slump in global trade would likely far outweigh the increased volumes of crude that would flow across the border into the Gulf of Mexico — especially at today's depressed prices.