Sentences with phrase «subsistence levels of»

Though the bulk of humanity is far richer and healthier than at any time in history, there are places on earth where the way people live is little different from the subsistence levels of the past.

Its very possible on current exponential growth that the process of scarcity and price increases would be rapid, and thus could cause considerable hardship and tip parts of humanity into subsistence levels of consumption, as some materials become very scarce and hard to recycle.

Unemployed and on public assistance for most of the time since the original court order, he was not even at a subsistence level of income.

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It is clear that some groups, especially those who live from the investment of capital, will gain by increasing the size of markets and that labor now living above the global subsistence level will lose.

Nikos Theocarakis thinks the ability of families to keep supporting their unemployed younger family members is rapidly disappearing: «The grandparents» pensions have been cut so they need it for themselves as they are at subsistence level... there is no fat left to support those who are unemployed.»

Possessed economy and quality of life above subsistence - level farming, and did not depend on unusually rich natural resources.

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

«This is below a subsistence level,» Cuomo said of the current minimum wage.

Figure out a subsistence level (say 150 % of the Federal poverty level for a family of 4) and tax the rest.

Churchill's safety net is at the bottom: holding people at subsistence level, just above the abyss of hunger and homelessness.

I hope they will aim to raise the initial tax threshold to the current subsistence level (even if over a few years), simplify the benefit system so that benefit claimants receive in effect a weekly wage or monthly salary instead of a number of dribs and drabs (all of which require horrendous forms), amalgamate NI with IT and then look at introducing a flat tax to cover the lot.

A upper middle class higher managerial, administrative or professional B middle class intermediate managerial, administrative or professional C1 lower middle class supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional C2 skilled working class skilled manual workers D working class semi and unskilled manual workers E those at lowest level of subsistence state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers

For many cacao farmers in developing nations, tripling their yields would mean the difference between a subsistence - level income of $ 1 a day and a manageable $ 3 a day.

(You need prawn DNA to do that, and the aliens themselves don't seem too interested in shooting anything up: the survivors are all drones, and figuratively and literally directionless without their dead leadership; they're just about able to take care of themselves on a subsistence level, and certainly pose no threat of, saying, taking over Planet Earth.)

the survivors are all drones, and figuratively and literally directionless without their dead leadership; they're just about able to take care of themselves on a subsistence level, and certain pose no threat of, saying, taking over Planet Earth.

This is kind of a minor miracle, given the well - publicized woes of the critical world, and even though I'm way below the poverty line and living more - or-less subsistence level, I'm perfectly happy to have made it so far.

The actors — especially the lead, Jennifer Lawrence, so good in films like Winter's Bone and Silver Linings Playbook — gave lackluster performances, and looked too well - fed and healthy to convincingly portray members of a population existing at a bare subsistence level.

The Hunger Games is set in a future North America where the nation of Panem is divided between the elites in the capital and those living at subsistence levels in the twelve surrounding districts.

The Limburg Principles had referred to the notion of «minimum subsistence rights for all» (Principle 25), but it is in General Comment 3 and subsequent comments on specific rights that the concept of the essential level of rights was outlined.

The rapidly accumulating evidence of soil depletion over wide agricultural areas, the reduction in crop yields on improperly fertilized or unfertilized areas and on others, the reduction of fertility levels to the point where fertilizer applications represent the minimum subsistence diet, combined with an aroused public consciousness of the importance of soil fertility conservation and restoration, will inevitably lead to a demand that the chemical industry provide here the same high order of service which it offers elsewhere in meeting man's aspirations for more abundance and greater efficiency.

A great portion of the destruction is about subsistence and attaining moderate levels of comfort and pleasure.

The number (N) of generations remaining before our society collapses to subsistence or extinction with huge loss of life is dependent on (a function of [f]-RRB- the Population (P) Level in the world multiplied by the Average Standard of Living in the world placing Economic Demands on the Earth's finite non-renewable natural resources (R) economically available to humans.

Urban agriculture is a dynamic concept that comprises a variety of livelihood systems, ranging from subsistence production and processing at household level to fully commercialised agriculture.

Development activities in the Arctic (for example, oil and gas, minerals, tourism, and shipping) are of concern to Indigenous communities, from both perceived threats and anticipated benefits.149 Greater levels of industrial activity might alter the distribution of species, disrupt subsistence activities, increase the risk of oil spills, and create various social impacts.

(https://www.24hoursofreality.org/) In Ghana, women farmers produce some 70 percent of subsistence crops, giving many a ground - level perspective on the impacts of climate change.

The simple act of some civilizations trying to feed and clothe their members through subsistence existences is by far a larger source to the extent that the United States could stop all emissions this very second along with the industrialized world and CO2 levels would still be projected to increase by a factor of 3 by 2100.

In one case, the court awarded 80 % of the marital property to the wife because she was uneducated and unable to earn more than subsistence level income while the husband was much more employable.

I find it interesting that although a number of studies have come out over the past few years that reveal there is no positive relationship between wealth and happiness (once you're past subsistence level) we as a society continue to pursue more riches as our main goal.

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