Sentences with phrase «problems by economic growth»

(3) The claims to solve the population and environmental problems by economic growth have always seemed somewhat implausible.

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The economy is really being supported — this isn't just in the United States, it's in Japan, the ECB and Britain — the economy is being supported by quantitative easing that is allowing for a massive budget deficit and money printing exercises to go on... As you address the fiscal problems, you are going to have weak economic growth.

But the problem is caused by a weak global economy wherein inefficient demand is causing slow economic growth.

By the mid 1950s, unemployment had long ceased to be a problem and there was a confidence that rapid economic growth and full employment would be sustained.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.

However, just crunching differences in home prices can skew results towards communities that have poor prospects — that is, neighbourhoods that are cheap because they're mired by social problems, lack amenities or are plagued by anemic local economic growth.

Have you guys ever considered, that a sheer profit oriented economic system, guided by an infinite growth paradigm (on a finite planet) will cause more and ever more problems?

Wealthier Democrats («limousine liberals») have the luxury of being able to care passionately about solving the problem, whether or not it slows economic growth rates by a fraction.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

But a 60-fold growth in global economic output is a sobering prospect — enough to make arguable, at least, Trainer's assessment that «no plausible assumptions regarding technical advance, energy conservation, etc. could show that the problems can be solved...» It's a point echoed by others such as Mark Lynas.

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

«Although the London Mayor has announced that funding for this problem will be doubled the challenges remain essentially the same faced by the Smoke Abatement Leagues in the 1800s: the causes are complex, some pollution is (thought to be) linked to economic growth and jobs..»

Forest degradation and forest land conversion are different aspects of the same problem, caused by multiple and interacting factors, such as economic growth, macroeconomic policies, population movements and the legislative framework, intertwined with climatic variation, economic activities and urbanization, among others.

Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems — climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption — are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.

Latest research by the REC shows that the new regulations have caused only limited problems for businesses which regularly use agency workers, and only 4 % of those surveyed attributed any reduction in their use of temporary agency staff directly to the regulations themselves; citing other market reasons for reducing their use of agency workers including continued economic uncertainty and weak growth.