Sentences with phrase «major social disruption»

And this will lead to major social disruption unless we develop sound policies to ease the transition.

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As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

The committee called for improvements in the process of systematically envisioning and assessing plausible large - area, long - duration grid disruptions that could have major economic, social, and other adverse consequences.

As a very small portion of the world's overall population, we in the US won't be immune from the major impacts of these social and demographic disruptions, and it is also unwise to think we'll be immune from the warming itself.

We aren't willing to spend 5 % of GDP on a 1 in a million chance of that, and even less willing to spend that kind of money on an unlikely event that is adaptable to without major loss of life, just major economic (and social disruption and ecosystem) cost, should it strike.

adoption service (s)(in intercountry adoption) The six major services provided by adoption service providers: (1) Identifying a child for adoption and arranging an adoption; (2) Securing the necessary consent to termination of parental rights and to adoption; (3) Performing a background study on a child or a home study on a prospective adoptive parent (s), and reporting on such a study; (4) Making nonjudicial determinations of the best interests of a child and the appropriateness of an adoptive placement for the child; (5) Monitoring a case after a child has been placed with prospective adoptive parent (s) until final adoption; or (6) When necessary because of a disruption before final adoption, assuming custody and providing (including facilitating the provision of) child care or any other social service pending an alternative placement.