Sentences with phrase «rich nations less»

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Rich nations with older demographics and less immigration, such as Italy and Japan, will soon experience permanent population declines.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

This vision, if taken seriously in this country, for example, would lead to more emphasis upon a positive strategy to overcome the growing gap between the rich nations and the poor and less on the dominant negative strategy of containing the enemy by filling him with fear of our power to destroy him.

This nation, through a varied history, rich in external and internal experience, had become far removed from the primitive life of immediate dependence on nature, in which neighboring Oriental peoples still more or less lingered.

We are the richest nation in the world and we can't take care of our own people who are less fortunate.

The Fair - trade model was initially developed to allow producer cooperatives in less developed countries to trade with richer nations through a protective scheme.

That would certainly skew the premise that rich nations are less religious than poor nations, even if the oil nations derive wealth from natural resources and not industry.

This would also likely drive the very rich to move away from the nation that has this policy, instead living somewhere where they are taxed less, and then we loose all their taxes.

But, here's the interesting thing: In richer nations, those who are religious are actually less happy than their non-religious neighbors.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

Of course there may be other reasons for that (poverty, disease), but just looking at rich developed nations, the Japanese are thinner than Americans and also eat much less meat — though they do eat more fish.

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.

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

Schandl et al (2016) show that even if we (a) impose a carbon price of $ 50 per ton, rising by an extraordinary 4 % per year to $ 250 per ton, and (b) somehow miraculously manage to double the material efficiency of our economies more or less immediately, rich nations will still only be able to achieve decarbonization of max 4.7 % per year.

My argument is that high social outcomes can be achieved with relatively modest income — and certainly much less than rich nations currently command.

While the framework established that developing nations would have the right to develop, it also envisioned that development in places like China and India might take a fundamentally different, and less carbon - intensive path than that taken by rich nations.

Only extremely rich nations can afford to produce energy in such an inefficient manner because they can subsidize it with money from their high tech economies that are less dependent energy costs.

The fact that climate change is likely to deal its harshest blows to less developed nations is one of the cruel ironies about this issue — considering that it was largely the rich, industrialized world that emitted the greenhouse gases that caused the problem in the first place.