Sentences with phrase «more economic damage»

In the real world, and not in the «Not For Profit» guaranteed income via tax levies world of cocoonism, being the world of the CREAcrats, non performers are eventually fired before they can do any more economic damage to the interests of their employers.

Hopefully, with time, they will drown this nonsense before it causes more economic damage.

Only Japan incurs more economic damage from natural disaster than we do.

Not exact matches

Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he did not desire to change China's economic system but wanted to limit the damage it causes to the United States and encourage more foreign competition.

Trump is using the presidency as a bully pulpit in a different and more threatening sense, which will not only be damaging to our economic system, but unlikely to produce the results that many of his supporters appear to expect.

The economic damage more than quadruples to $ 1 trillion, or about 6 % of U.S. GDP.

The damage and production shutdowns caused by the wildfire that razed Fort McMurray could subtract more than a percentage point from economic growth in the second quarter, the central bank said.

U.S. stocks came off the day's lows after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he did not desire to change China's economic system but wanted to limit the damage it causes to the United States and encourage more foreign competition.

Canada should understand this and act to support what we have achieved, as well as help Mexico convince our mutual neighbour to change the new government's misguided and damaging attacks on our common objectives: more prosperity, more economic growth and more competitiveness for all three nations.

But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.

The pattern on trade policy through the first 14 months of the Trump administration has been to pair blustery talk — about pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, for example — with more modest policy actions and negotiations that may avert real economic damage.

As we know, there are 2 more revisions to come (and potentially a major unscheduled revision several years from now when no one cares / no economic damage can be done).

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

On the other hand, if these tariffs are the first shot in a prolonged trade war that spirals out of control, the economic damage could be far more severe.

If David Cameron and George Osborne fail to do so and put political pride above the national economic interest we face more long - term damage and pain for businesses and families.»

That's politics, but it means our economic readjustment to reality is more prolonged and more damaging.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

The business body fears the move will damage the economic recovery by causing more drastic cuts to capital investment in other areas.

The suit seeks more than $ 50,000 in general damages and more than $ 50,000 in economic damages as well as an unspecified amount for medical and funeral expenses, emotional distress and other damages.

Invasive species cost us more in environmental, economic, and health - care related damages than all other natural disasters combined.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

For instance, more accurate data could be used to gauge the effect of wealth on violence, or the severity of the economic damage inflicted by violent conflict.

Lobbyists say those cuts slowed research aimed at improving the nation's health, economic prosperity, and national security, and that keeping them in place would do even more serious damage.

More than seven trillion US dollars economic damage and eight million deaths via natural disasters since the start of the 20th century: These figures have been calculated and collected by the risk engineer Dr. James Daniell from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

They also cost the Chinese economy more than 200 billion yuan ($ 32 billion) annually in direct economic damage.

Significantly, poor people in climate - vulnerable countries will suffer more because they will not have the economic resources to cope with climate damages.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

The hiring data for August had yet to account for the damage from Hurricane Harvey, whose economic impact will be felt in coming months as more people seek unemployment benefits and industrial production will likely reflect the loss of Texas refineries and factories.

I am happy to read more about this, and I have never claimed that there aren't important methane and carbon feedbacks in the Arctic, but the scenarios that people are discussing (and calculating economic damages from!)

In all of these countries the lack of political and economic rights (democracy and Captalism) has done more damage then anything the United States has.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

It damages American economic competitiveness — More expensive energy and goods damage America's economic output and overall competitiveness.

The city claims in its lawsuit that coastal flooding will cause more than $ 38 million in damages and estimates its overall economic vulnerability at more than $ 106 million.

This is more than the total current market capitalization of the London Stock Exchange with impacts on company holdings that will come not just through extreme weather damage but also through lower economic growth.

(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.

These include potential flood damages from more extreme rainfall in most parts of Australia and New Zealand; constraints on water resources from reducing rainfall in southern Australia; increased health risks and infrastructure damages from heat waves in Australia; and, increased economic losses, risks to human life and ecosystem damage from wildfires in southern Australia and many parts of New Zealand.

The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is far more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming.

While it's hard to pin a dollar value on damages, economic models suggest climate change already costs hundreds of billions in damages globally during the 20th century through lost crops, rising seas and more extreme weather.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

Given the current socio - economic, political and environmental context, the countries with more risks of losses and damages due to extreme weather events and slow onset events are developing countries, those which have contributed the least to climate change and those less capable of adapting to its impacts.

Whatever the discount rate chosen, the present value of the, «projected global economic damage,» would be so infinitesimally small that going out 100 or more years into the future would essentially be meaningless, mathematically.

Hurricane Sandy caused more than $ 60 billion in damages and Tropical Storm Irene and Winter Storm Nemo had devastating economic impacts here in Massachusetts.

This extra 10 % rainfall caused more than 10 % of the economic damages associated with rainfall.

With the current outlook for stronger economic growth, more environmental funding will become essential, if the country is to limit the environmental damage of heavier resource use.

These people are unlikely to stop unless it is clear to them that there is greater likelihood of a personal negative consequence that is more significant than the potential benefit they hope to personally obtain, a perception of potential benefit being sold through deceptive marketing promoted by the kingpins of the pyramid schemes of unsustainable and damaging activity developed and promoted and prolonged in the political - economic system.

The economic cost of the damage will be moderated by changes in land use and by agricultural trade, with some regions more able to adapt than others.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

When the likelihood of extreme damage goes up, calls for mitigation become more persuasive and pass muster against a wider variety of economic scenarios.

But the substantial economic damage had been done, and continues (substitutes are less effective, and far more costly).

As with the global SC - CO2 estimates, the domestic SC - CO2 increases over time because future emissions are expected to produce larger incremental damages as physical and economic systems become more stressed in response to greater climatic change, and because GDP is growing over time and many damage categories are modeled as proportional to gross GDP.