Sentences with phrase «social collapse in»

Does anyone really believe society will calmly stand by as we head towards 3 °C, then 4 °C, staring economic and social collapse in the face while we focus on cheap energy as some kind of overriding objective?

This theory holds that a prolonged series of droughts between 800 to 1000 AD caused a social collapse in a region that already lacked stable sources of drinking water.

They were released by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith as part of a detailed report into the depth of social collapse in deprived areas.

Today David Cameron called for a major review of policy relating to social collapse in Britain.

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On social media, readers expressed intense loathing («I hate these people so much,») threats of physical violence («Dear god, I want to punch them in the face,») and a longing for karmic justice («I've never wanted the entire real estate market to completely collapse until now»).

So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»

But the other day we had a vending machine in India and a vending machine of Coca - Cola in Pakistan, and had cameras on the vending machine where a consumer in India shared a Coke with a consumer in Pakistan, and that collapsed all the social media networks because so many people were talking about it.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

As feminist scholars are not slow to point out, there is a very definite social context in Freud's time that led so many women to collapse into hysterics in his office.

He said it's clear that greed was a major factor in the economic collapse and that a wide gap between the haves and have - nots is social dynamite.

A society not rooted in God, trapped in social relativism where, as Hume put it, «morality is more properly felt than judged of», readily collapses into emotivism; the looter claims his opinion carries as much weight as the victim's.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

Particularly in the realm of sexual behavior, the elite can enjoy the freedoms that the dissolution of taboos allows, while yet being shielded from the resultant social evils, most notably the collapse of family and community.

This is sad that our system is beset by Republicans that think the best way out of a recession is to eliminate more jobs and take away workers and social protections so they can further the system that caused the economic collapse in the first place.

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

Today we are experiencing the collapse of a social system based on egotism both in the East and in the West.

The Church imposes an egalitarian social order in the organisation of its rituals and is increasingly involved in secular affairs, thus collapsing the complementarity of religious equality and caste hierarchy, and more generally of the sacred and the secular.

Take General Motors out of Detroit in 1970 and the social structures in that state would be profoundly altered, if not collapse.

On the one hand, their decade - long strategy of full accommodation to neo-liberalism in order to skim off the surplus for ameliorative social spending has collapsed.

With the increased trust of consumers in building societies and credit unions after the banking collapse, it seems there is a public appetite for the co-operative alternative and a belief that it is possible to combine social justice and economic efficiency within the firm.

It was a byproduct of an imbroglio of events: the collapse of Bretton Woods; the collapse of Keynesian demand management; enduring decline; growing disillusionment of welfarism; the extremism of class politics; the oil price hike; the consecutive Tory defeats in 1974; trade union militancy; the emerging»em bourgeoisement» of the aspiring working classes; the Winter of Discontent; and a revival of a «climate of opinion» receptive to orthodox economics and conservative social morality.

But in an age in which mass social democratic parties across Europe, from Greece through to France and Germany, have collapsed at the ballot box, it is Labour's only realistic option.

Conspiracy theories driven by social media are driving Labour's collapse in Scotland, a leading Labour MP claimed today.

Since the collapse of the Keynesian compromise in the late 1970s, the European left has been trying to reinvent social - democracy.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

I spoke to Burnham before the meeting, who said the collapse in social care was the «single biggest cause» of the difficulties A&E departments were facing.

Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron fail to understand the real causes of the crisis facing the NHS: a chaotic reorganization, front - line job cuts, the disastrous introduction of the 111 service, the closure of NHS walk - in centres and the collapse of social care.

«Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.

And if the Social Security fund decides its a good time to sell its derivatives it may have trouble to sell them all for the opposite reason - there just may not be enough people buying (this is what lead to the Lehman collapse in 2008).

The causes are many... A failure to put money aside in the good times... A banking system that lost all sense of prudence during a state - sponsored credit boom... A collapse of British society that has produced a dependent and dysfunctional population and cries out for David Cameron's social reform agenda.

Worsening income inequality, she said in a recent speech, risks causing «social collapse.»

The troubled Child Support Agency came in for renewed criticism during a Commons debate, though Frank Field, chairman of the social security select committee, said he no longer believed the agency would collapse.

«The country remains impoverished by many indications... In the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.&raquIn the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.&raquin each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.&raquin 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.»

Stop secretly wanting a Labour collapse in order to get rid of JC, how dare people who think like this call themselves any supporters of social based politics.

This can be problematic for two key reasons, namely; (1) it elicits relatively superficial engagement with the cause, and (2) the exponential increase in social momentum is unlikely to be sustained, as explosive unchecked positive growth typically results in system collapse.

«For example, cooperative behaviour may be enforced by social conventions or laws and failure to comply with these may result in collapse of the public good.

Peter Turchin's model predicting outbursts of political collapse and social violence, which follow economic cycles in history, is undoubtedly correct.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

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Fossil fuels have run dry, global warming is in full effect, there are widespread social problems stemming from a collapsing global economy.

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

Plus, the gold and silver may feel relatively unaccessible in the event of currency collapse or other social disaster.

The ultimate goal in We Happy Few will be to escape Wellington Wells, but there's a time limit to be able to do that — after too many days have passed, the social structure will collapse rendering the escape impossible.

The artist conceived and re-conceived the exhibition in his Los Angeles studio, eventually presenting paintings, sculptures and video the reflect his individual voice, collapse the division between artist and ordinary people, and emphasize his belief in the social and cultural influence of art, particularly in this historic, political moment.

They are interested in Detroit as a precursor for potential / impending economic, social, and ecological collapse.

As Abraham constructs his latest exhibition, Autorreconstruccion: Social Tissue at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland, he talks to Jo Fahy about his work, his ideas about inclusivity, the importance of beer to his creative process and the challenges when a sculpture collapses.

In her catalog essay, the Whitney Museum of American Art's film curator, Chrissie Iles, distinguishes Ms. Collier from the Pictures Generation artists: «Collier's relationship with her subject matter takes place at one remove, and at a greater historical distance, within a social culture transformed by the Internet, in which the linear trajectory of history has collapsed into a flat matrix of information, influence and temporal fluidity.&raquIn her catalog essay, the Whitney Museum of American Art's film curator, Chrissie Iles, distinguishes Ms. Collier from the Pictures Generation artists: «Collier's relationship with her subject matter takes place at one remove, and at a greater historical distance, within a social culture transformed by the Internet, in which the linear trajectory of history has collapsed into a flat matrix of information, influence and temporal fluidity.&raquin which the linear trajectory of history has collapsed into a flat matrix of information, influence and temporal fluidity.»

In assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborationIn assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborationin the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborationin the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborationin such collaborations.

Hewitt has worked with historically exploited and marginalized social groups, and Rahman's recent novel «In Light of What We Know» focuses on extreme poverty and the financial collapse.