Sentences with phrase «like food shortages»

While Congress members like Fred Upton (Republican, Michigan) yowl about the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon emissions as «an unconstitutional power grab» and attach the term «job - killing» to every piece of environmental legislation with a political pulse, national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.

«climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.»

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These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

There's no shortage of comfort food with meals like these on hand!

An assessment of Earth's biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock - on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food

The first - generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage of food.

Engqvist: «In stressful times, like periods of food shortage, this process can even lead to population extinction, since the investment in competition exceeds the value of the resources.»

In developing countries like Uganda, where floods, food and water shortages, outbreaks of disease, the effects of HIV / AIDS, and internal conflicts occur, the funding of scientific research [will not be the first priority].

Bloomberg Philanthropy's Global Scholars program even helps students from different countries collaborate on solving international problems, like water shortages or food security.

In the aftermath of the disaster, aid was slow to trickle into the islands, causing a shortage of vital supplies like pet food.

Since these countries face problems of childhood deaths and food shortages the idea of paying extra money for energy causes a lot of problems since it leads to a lot of things like fertilizer costing more.

But the reaction was dismay among the small international community of social scientists trying to figure out how to make sure climate forecasts are useful to, say, an agriculture department in Ethiopia, or trying to figure out how supposed climate fixes like biofuels might create food shortages.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Sea level rise, food shortages and storms like Katrina, Irene and Sandy hit the poorest hardest.

Even those nations where people in poverty plump up the statistics on obesity due to the low nutritional value and high caloric content of our cheap processed foods enjoy a high standard of availability of food — consequently giving little thought to what it is like to experience severe food shortages.

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