Sentences with phrase «other wealthy societies»

«The studies showing that high temperature increases violence crime in the US and other wealthy societies seems to suggest that physiological responses are important, too, with very short - run exposure to heat contributing to more aggressive and violent behaviour,» said Marshall Burke, also of Berkeley.

Not exact matches

So, for these and other reasons, we do not now often see our society as one divided into wealthy exploiting owners and poor exploited workers.

Surely, this analysis must purport to show how, contrary to all the evidence I've seen, equalising capital gains, equalising tax relief on pensions, closing various other loopholes and introducing a mansions tax will actually have a minimal impact on the incomes of the wealthiest on society?

If only a few wealthy companies control how Americans communicate with each other, it will be harder for people to talk among ourselves about the kind of society we want to build.

The two spend time with their other best friends, wealthy society wife Karen (Megan Mullally) and flighty, flamboyant Jack (Sean Hayes).

Day - Lewis is Reynolds Woodcock, the mercurial, inscrutable genius who designs dresses for continental princesses and other wealthy women of society.

In any event, the Darien and Greenwich and New Canaan and Fairfield and many other districts that seem to represent OZ to the impoverished are never good enough and the wealthy pack their precious ones off to private schools generating yet another gap (the dreaded private school gap) in our society!

The Whitney Museum, with its system of wealthy trustees and ties to the real estate industry perpetuates a model in which culture enhances the city and benefits the 1 % of our society while driving others into financial distress.

What about human birth control (and I am NOT, NOT, NOT referring to sterilizing poor people or promoting more births within wealthy socio economic societies); I'm referring to one child policies (for a while) not taking more than we need; compromise; simplification and minimalism, and respect for other life on this planet.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

Uncertainty in GDP, which is the most important factor for CO2 and N2O, largely reflects society's willingness to pay to avoid impacts in the future (wealthier people will pay more) rather than uncertainties in the impacts themselves as for other factors.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.