Sentences with phrase «much economic harm»

Some of those schools, however, have been accused of creating as much economic harm as help: students have reported falling deep into debt to pay for classes that they said had failed to deliver what they had promised.

Not exact matches

But the likelier outcome isn't the emergence of a supervirus as much as an overall increase in pathogen pollution — nuisance infections that drain health and economic resources, harming people, crops and livestock.

Currently set at $ 36 per ton of carbon dioxide, the metric is produced using a complex, and contentious, set of models estimating a host of future costs to society related to rising temperatures and seas, then using a longstanding economic tool, a discount rate, to gauge how much it is worth today to limit those harms generations hence.

David Roberts, now writing on climate and energy at Vox, wrote a much - cited column for Grist a few years ago dissecting economic calculations used to determine how much it is worth today to limit climate - related harms generations in the future.

Harm to the USA is much more likely to come from economic issues than from changes t the climate over the next 50 years.

See chapter 9 of my early 2012 ebook Gaia's Limits for a much longer and more detailed rationale based on chapters 5 - 8, plus working out general economic «least harm» consequences if the fuel tax increase is ramped over time.