Sentences with phrase «most drastic action»

The first report concluded that only the most drastic action could prevent pollution, diminishing natural resources and falling food production from causing massive famine and a plunge in the world's population.

August saw the US's most drastic action, restricting the Venezuelan government's access to the US financial system, preventing it and the state oil company, PDVSA, from issuing new debt in US dollars.

Not exact matches

The simplest — and most drastic — action that an investor can take is to sell some of their current bond holdings and leave the proceeds in an interest bearing cash account or money - market fund which might benefit from a rise in interest rates.

To me it feels like those in power should be held to this kind of treatment because their actions have the most drastic consequences, but sometimes I scare myself with the things I think about them.

If you really want changes, your going to have to prove it by taking drastic measures and personally, judging by my experience from the North Bank day's at Highbury which was a million times more hostile than the Emirates, most Arsenal fan's are all mouth with no actions!

«After a budget process that included unprecedented anti-employer actions — including a drastic increase to the minimum wage and the most expansive paid family leave mandate in the nation — the employers and the communities we represent are deeply concerned about their ability to operate in a state that is consistently viewed among the worst in the nation to start or grow a business by every objective ranking while effectively competing in a global marketplace,» the groups wrote in the letter.

But even without such biographical details, that are far from conclusive, the interest in refugees and exile is apparent within the substance of the film, most prominently in the finale that is not only a fitting climax for the action that has preceded it, but also a drastic step for the MCU as a whole.

Most of the schools that were red multiple years and faced the prospect of drastic action this year have bounced right off that list.

And after another quick scan, I find table SPM.6 from the Synthesis which says emissions would need to peak sometime before the middle of the century to limit temperature rises to under 4 degrees (with a peak by 2015 to achieve less than 2 degrees warming)... I think most would agree that some degree of «drastic action» is going to be required to achieve a peak in emissions within this time frame, particularly while we have guys like you running around, would you not?

Without drastic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, potentially lethal heatwaves will threaten most people by the century's end.

In order to keep temperatures within this range, the IPCCâ $ ™ s Fourth Assessment Report argues that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must start declining by 2015.2 For industrialized countries, which are responsible for most of the GHGs already in the atmosphere, this implies implementing drastic cuts immediately; the latest IPCC Report suggests that compared to 1990 levels, industrialized countries might have to reduce their emissions by 25 to 40 per cent by 2020 and 80 to 95 per cent by 2050.3 Thus, there is little time left to avoid the worst impacts of climate changeâ $» ambitious action is required now.

The main conclusions of the Cosmos paper, including the most - referred - to quotes like «Look before you leap» and «The scientific basis for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time,» both appeared before the publication of the Cosmos article, in a separate paper authored by Fred Singer alone in the journal ES&T (see archived PDF here).

Leading scientists say most people remain unaware of the truth that climate change is a stark reality now and will continue to get worse without drastic action.

If we can convince them that there is a viable market for them taking drastic action to convert their cars and trucks to being the most environmentally efficient in the world, they have nothing to lose by unconditionally embracing the green movement.