Sentences with phrase «only drastic action»

«They also accept that only drastic action starting now will prevent wholesale destruction of reefs and other similarly affected ecosystems.»

Borrowing the «turnaround» lingo from the business world, education policymakers claim that only drastic action, from firing the principal to closing the school entirely, can get quick results and rescue failing schools.

Not exact matches

Only the smallest actions are required to spark drastic change in a club's season.

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.

America's social degeneration is a complex vicious cycle that will only worsen if our elected officials do not take drastic corrective action with the public food supply and substantially reduce taxes at the national level.

The media's insistence on making more of the film than a big, enjoyably dumb action movie only highlights the drastic shift in representation in casting and marketing as a predatory -LSB-...]

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.

The sad fact is that drastic consequences, such as war and environmental collapse, are the only thing that will force people to action.

The only other three years in which Gallup has measured this variable were from 2001 to 2003, when a slightly lower percentage of Americans advocated drastic action.

But despite the onslaught from the influential denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

Oreskes kicks off with statistics from a recent poll which suggest that «72 % of Americans [are] completely or mostly convinced that global warming is happening» and that «sixty - two percent... believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

Additionally, only a little more than a third of Americans say that immediate, drastic action is needed in order to maintain life as we know it on the planet.

This is set to rise steadily higher — yet it is being imposed for only one reason: the widespread conviction, which is shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century — when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.

Don't wait till drastic action is the only option.

But he says the U.S. will probably have to take more drastic action to revive the island's economy - «give them some sort of tax break,» or maybe even inject funds, though only to stimulate the economy, not to pay off creditors.