Sentences with phrase «poor nations around the world»
In actuality, we have poor nations around the world enslaved by the International Monetary Fund, locked into trade blocs that help the U.S. at everyone else's expense and on and on.
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Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»
Blaming the poor for their poverty is counter-productive; effectively arguing for the best way out of poverty is a winning argument with plenty of empirical evidence from developing nations around the world.
With a per capita income of around 300 dollars a year, it is one of the poorest nations in the world.
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.»
The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.
Such a framing ignores that it is tens of millions of poor people around the world who will be most harmed by climate change if high - emitting nations fail to reduce their emissions to their fair share 0f safe global emissions.
Climate change is a problem that is being caused mostly by high emitting nations and people that are harming and putting at risk poor people and the ecological systems on which they depend around the world.
The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.
Because a high percentage of the arguments made by most proponents of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds of millions of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware of:
After Bill Clinton preempted the talk by saying he regretted not providing funding to small farmers around the world during his presidency — he'd also mentioned this was a huge mistake in the blogger's round table I attended earlier this week — Hillary went in depth on how Obama plans to help small farmers produce and sell food in the world's poorest nations.
Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million people were displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.