Sentences with phrase «severe economic consequences if»

Mr Hooke said there would be severe economic consequences if coal mining ended but no tangible environmental dividend.

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That value may dwindle to nothing or less if the Brexit process is badly mishandled or if the economic consequences become severe and the government takes the blame but those are risks that May presumably feels she has to run — and which are in any case no more than the risks of a soft (or «fake») Brexit given the intense scrutiny many Tory MPs will give the choices made.

Yet in your summary above you state: «The consequences of failure to convert to non-carbon-based energy sources will be severe for the second half of the 21st century; but we have time if we start now (which we should do anyway, for sound environmental and economic reasons).»