Sentences with phrase «wealthiest nations on earth»

And yet even in one of the wealthiest nations on earth the defences were inadequate and the response plan poor.

Sixteen of the twenty wealthiest nations on earth are about to set upon a population decrease the the world hasn't seen since the Black Death.

And I profoundly believe that many of the conflicts, the refugee crises, the military interventions over the years might have been avoided if nations had truly invested in the lives of their people, and if the wealthiest nations on Earth were better partners in working with those that are trying to lift themselves up.

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

«Independence is all about the ability to put Scotland's wealth to better use, and develop a higher standard of living as befits our position as one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

We could make sure that no one suffers because they can't afford health care in the wealthiest nation on earth.

We find it unacceptable that at a time when the Akufo Addo government continues to lament significant shortfalls in revenue and in the face of astronomical duty payments by Ghanaian importers, personnel of the Armed Forces of the wealthiest nation on earth would be exempted from tax and levy payments and in such generous proportions.

«If you work a full time job in the wealthiest nation on earth, you shouldn't have to have to struggle to feed your family,» stated Pérez at the rally.

They are disgusted that the wealthiest nation on Earth is undermining their desperate efforts to get the help they need to survive a problem they didn't even create (an American emits many times what they do into the air).

I'm of the school that says that a few % points of GPD is a trivial cost for the wealthiest nation on Earth to pay to find out whether anything we can do will prevent potential catastophes like the submersion of Southern Louisiana.

I think it is rather facile, from the comfort of the wealthiest nation on earth, to dismiss those who have been concerned about the «population bomb».

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I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

Just three years after the world's nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a push was initiated to move from that agreement's aspirational goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to hard targets and timetables for wealthier countries.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.