Sentences with phrase «people in wealthy countries»

For many people in wealthy countries flying is the activity with the greatest climate footprint.

To examine the ways in which people in wealthy countries are culpable in consuming products created by child laborers, students can create inquiry projects that investigate the manufacturing of a favorite item, such as a pair of shoes or an electronic gadget.

Think of it as a Darwinian redistribution of wealth from thick people in wealthy countries to smarter people in poorer ones...

1 in 6 — That's how many people in wealthy countries take antidepressants — and that's too low, according to a new study on treating the disorder.

Two hundred and fifty million people in the wealthiest country on the planet are barely making it.

Instead, people in wealthier countries should consider adopting «lifestyle and behavioural changes» to reduce the size of their carbon footprints, he adds, in order to offset the extra carbon cost of ending poverty.

The fact that emissions per person in wealthy countries are at least 10 times that in China and India does not seem to matter.

The Pope cares more supposedly for the poor people of this world than anything else, and this Big Climate alarmism is a conspiracy by wealthy people and the wealthiest people in the wealthiest countries against the poor of the world.

Not exact matches

«It will be the biggest transfer of wealth from low - and middle - income people to wealthy people in our country.

Kumar Birla, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group and, according to Forbes, the country's eighth - wealthiest person, told Trudeau he finds both the federal and provincial governments in Canada to be very friendly for business.

While the record - breaking list is a sign of prosperity for the wealthiest people in the United States, it's also a stark reminder of the devastating wealth inequality in the country.

Last month, it eclipsed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the country, with a market valuation of $ 250 billion, and Forbes deemed Mr. Bezos the fifth - wealthiest person on earth.

Not only are those sensible ways of living but they're also things that create community, interdependence, the sort of life that we're made for together — and break the patterns of unsustainability and also land us in a place where we're the wealthiest country in the world and also one of the most lonely, medicated and depressed people in the world.

These wealthy people could fund a health care program that goes across the country and wipe out the need for Medicaid and the requirement for people to buy health insurance like in the Affordable Care Act.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

In any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthIn any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthin this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthin many cases, staggeringly wealthy.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

«When you look at the tax breaks and 80 percent of them are going to the wealthiest people in the country,» said Seamans, «and that leaves 20 percent for regular folks, you say, «How can you fund anything that will benefit Middle America?»

«Only the Labour Party is promising to stand up for working people, the majority in our country, while the Tories have made clear they are determined to carry on handing out tax giveaways to a wealthy few.»

Salmond said he intended to set up an oil fund over the next five to ten years which would directly financially benefit every person in an independent Scotland, and make Scotland's GDP 115 % higher than the rest of the UK's, and the country the sixth wealthiest nation in the world.

«The primaries were all about that and the platform resulted from these primaries and then the discussion of the powerful ideas, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing wages and benefits, things like paid family leave, paid sick leave, things that really would have resonated with so many people hurting in this country,» de Blasio told NY1's Errol Louis in his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» segment.

Reports in some sections of the media in 2016, captured the former president as the 5th wealthiest person in Ghana in a list of 20 richest people in the country.

Cable put it like this: «There has to be a tax measure in place which makes it absolutely clear that the wealthiest people in the country are making a contribution.»

A party spokesman told the Guardian newspaper: «If you're faced with a choice in terms of helping the wealthiest pensioners or helping the vulnerable across Britain, then his priority is the vulnerable people across the country who need the most help.»

«I think the Queen could contribute quite a bit... she's one of the wealthiest people in the country.

«I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax.

People were devastated to see that a major city in the wealthiest country was vulnerable and that the people most terribly affected were the poor and African AmerPeople were devastated to see that a major city in the wealthiest country was vulnerable and that the people most terribly affected were the poor and African Amerpeople most terribly affected were the poor and African Americans.

People having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, which may be linked to drug - resistant bacteria, research suggests.

During lean times, people in relatively wealthy countries drink and smoke less and stop overeating.

A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that recessions in wealthy countries can lead to better health habits, as people spend less on alcohol, tobacco and rich food.

«It raises the possibility that people who think life is better in wealthier countries — and who thus go to a wealthier county to try and improve their own lives — might be disappointed by what they experience there.»

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

In wealthy countries where people eat a lot of animal foods, many other factors exist that can contribute to heart disease.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

Although money will not provide happiness by itself (I've met a lot of really happy people in third world countries as well as unhappy wealthy individuals), it can help us to provide financial security for ourselves and our families, help others in need, support worthwhile causes, and provide us with enriching opportunities.

If investors actually heeded this advice instead of listening to the latest stock tip, then we would have a lot more wealthy people in this country.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

People in fast - growing countries like China and India would almost certainly expect a concerned person in a wealthy nation to recognize the primacy in such places of real - time energy needs over long - term climate concerns.

As Indur Goklany has shown, even assuming that the climate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to climate.

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

It is suggested that in wealthy countries people could assist by storing half a dozen cans in the kitchen as a permanent sink.

This could be because wealthier people tend to take more vacations, while better technology, such as what's found in countries with cleaner energy infrastructures, only weakly offset increasing emissions.

If, in a wealthy country, we were to stumble across some case of poverty, we would not say that the conditions people were living in were the result of climate change.

These are not people wealthy countries are simply tasked with accommodating, they are in part victims of a phenomenon that they have had little hand in creating, which deserves some recognition, if not reparation.

Wealthy countries of Europe, Asia and the Americas face rapid population aging, while Africa and some countries in Asia prepare for the largest cohort of young people the world has ever seen.

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The current proposition offered by climate alarmists is that if people who live in the more wealthy countries cut back their use of fossil fuels and therefore their human - caused CO2 emissions that the world can avoid the alleged catastrophic increases in temperatures based on the climate models.