Sentences with phrase «like global political economy»

At least to me, what is also evident is this: concerns like long - term human well being, biodiversity protection and the maintenance of the integrity of this tiny planet we inhabit are now at odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all else.

It does appear to me we have constructed an endlessly - expanding, leviathan - like global political economy that is on the verge of unsustainability in the the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home we inhabit.

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We need more people who understand the complexities of the highly - interconnected global economy helping to fashion legislation in DC — not more political hacks like Blakeman.

Any analysis like this has to contend with political factors that drive the major imbalances of the global economy.

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

What worries me is how much time it takes for people to share long - range views like yours and to adopt farsighted proposals like the ones you are putting forward because the necessary changes that are in store for «the masters of the universe» — the leaders who rule the global political economy in its current, patently unsustainable form — will find such changes categorically unacceptable.

What worries me is how much time it takes for people to share sensible long - range views like yours and to adopt farsighted proposals like the ones you are putting forward because the necessary changes that are in store for «the masters of the universe» — the leaders who rule the global political economy in its current, patently unsustainable form — will find such changes categorically unacceptable.

In fact, all the Center's work to fight global warming — from petitioning and litigating for warming - threatened species to enforcing key laws like the California Environmental Quality Act to opposing too - low national fuel economy standards — have played an enormous role in putting climate change on the political map, making it that much harder for those who would deny it to suppress the truth.