Sentences with phrase «negative societal impacts»

The organization made an «internal, self regulatory decision» to scrap the project because of «public perception» and the «apparent negative societal impacts involved,» it noted in a statement.

In its news release, the Fertility Institutes admitted that, «though well intended, we remain sensitive to public perception and feel that any benefit the diagnostic studies may offer are far outweighed by the apparent negative societal impacts involved».

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This take - make - dispose model not only leads to an economic value loss of over $ 500 billion per year, but also has numerous negative environmental and societal impacts.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

Otherwise, we should use the reanalyeses for these impact studies, with, as one set of applications, perturbations prescribed in the impact models to assess at what level of change in climate statistics would result in a negative threshold being crossed in one or more key societal and / or environmental resources.