Sentences with phrase «looming global crisis»

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And water is a looming crisis: a recent McKinsey report forecasts that global water demand will rise 40 % over the next 20 years.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future

Without denying that the Human Age has triggered global warming and a terrifying mass extinction, Ackerman banks on our ability to address looming crises with creativity and determination in this precisely illuminating, witty, and resplendently expressive guide to the framework for a more positively human and humane future.

Investors had enjoyed excellent stock returns since 2003, and unless you knew a global financial crisis was looming, there was no reason to say that 2007 was anything other than the fifth year of a roaring bull market.

Most people would say low interest rates, high investment fees, looming inflation or the threat of a global crisis like the one that nearly brought down the financial system in 2008.

Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.

But the atoll study is one of many that points to a looming crisis of global displacement that will come sooner than expected if the world doesn't act quickly to reduce emissions and curb climate change.

The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future

ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global warming showed that the company was at the forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming crisis.

That the folly of the eugenicists would be joined to that of the global warming hysteria is little surprise; a convenient crisis is always helpful when you are looking for a reason to «systematically attempt to prune» the human race, and it does not really matter very much whether the looming disaster of the 1970s — a manmade Ice Age — is suddenly exchanged for another convenient prop.

In the face of a looming global public health crisis from the Zika virus, Congressional Republicans have not only failed to lead, they have proposed policies that would do more harm than good.