Sentences with phrase «on concentrations of wealth»

Think of all the impacts that fossil fuel powered development has had on concentrations of wealth and power, self - sufficiency, the biosphere and our health; substituting a fossil fuel driven economy for a solar energy economy will enable us to reverse these trends.

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Catering to this concentration of wealth, a slew of luxurious restaurants have opened at the city's over-the-top hotels and resorts in recent years, many of them with star chef names on the awnings: Joël Robuchon, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, and Daniel Boulud have all opened properties in Singapore.

Not making these currencies work for women would mean «missing out on the biggest concentration of wealth,» she says.

Hopefully this white paper on California Family Offices has demonstrated the high concentration of wealth in California, spread among many major cities including San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and more metropolitan areas nearby.

The prophets picked up on this ideal, protesting the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands.

«With such great wealth concentration at the top of the economic ladder, and working people having a harder and harder time,» Gianaris said, «it seems fair to me that we should ask a little bit more on a temporary basis to make sure mass transit is working for everybody.»

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

Drawing on his experience as a health psychologist and using a wealth of cultural, historical and literary references that range from the Buddha, to Nazi concentration camps, to Dorothy in the land of Oz, he leads us to examine ourselves.

His post-retirement area of professional concentration is behavioral finance, where his activities have included authoring and lecturing on the effect spending has on long - term wealth accumulation and perpetuation.

The concentration on seemingly monochrome shades unfolds a wealth of the finest of color nuances, which bear evidence of exclusive modesty and are visually very effective.

Mega-galleries such as Hauser & Wirth have benefitted disproportionately from the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a small sector of the global elite, giving them the resources to take on many of the functions that were previously the domain of curators, academics, and museums.

Globally, limits on emissions seemed to be limits on prosperity and growth, and the defenders of the status quo — powerful industry groups, concentrations of sovereign wealth, and ideological warriors — argued that climate activists were seeking to sabotage the modern industrial economy.

Therefore, the lack of mechanisms to curb speculation on uncensorable, decentralized networks leads to higher service costs and significant concentration of wealth.