Alternative
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On climate change, for example, we must embrace research and development to make green energy a genuinely cheaper
alternative
to fossil fuels.
Unfortunately, however, there is no obvious
alternative
to Putin.
The globalization of services, however, provides
alternative
opportunities for developing countries to find niches, beyond manufacturing, where they can specialize, scale up, and achieve explosive growth, just like the industrializers.
If, on the other hand, the regime remains determined to pursue its nuclear goals, regardless of cost, then we will know that there is no
alternative
to the first two options: attacking Iranian facilities or living with a nuclear-armed Iran.
Both outcomes are potentially risky and costly, but the US public, in particular, should be made aware that it was Iran that rejected a reasonable
alternative
to war before one began.
But, in most cases, people either look to the state and its officially mandated agencies to resolve problems and provide basic law enforcement, or would prefer to do so rather than resort – or just as often submit – to alternative, non-state providers.
The
alternative
is to Europeanize the solution to a problem caused largely by Europe’s systemic crisis.
These risks include natural disasters, more extreme weather, efforts by governments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and the knock-on effect of a technological revolution in renewables, energy efficiency, and
alternative
technologies.
Perhaps in another two decades, we will be discussing how Chinese-style meritocracy has provided an
alternative
– even a challenge – to Western-style democracy.
They are likely to continue this policy, as the
alternative
would be a sudden setback to the competitiveness of their export sectors in the all-important US market.
Second, Fatah never gave Palestinians any
alternative
vision.
So consider an
alternative
explanation: Starting in the early 1970’s, advanced economies found it increasingly difficult to grow.
Thus, while differing on the root causes of inequality (at least in the US), the progressive and
alternative
narratives agree about its consequences.
The
alternative
narrative has more to say.
The
alternative
view suggests different remedies.
But the government has hobbled along, unified primarily by its members’ opposition to the
alternative.
Thanks to this fast-evolving model, online learning is now a better
alternative
to traditional education than ever.
Ray Dalio describes a path featuring investment in human capital, infrastructure, and the scientific base of the economy as path A. The
alternative
is path B, characterized by a lack of investment in areas that will directly boost productivity, such as infrastructure and education.
We should also start seriously working on the production of the
alternative
sources of energy.
What is disconcerting, however, is not only the relentless financing and spread of war, but also the lack of an
alternative
US strategy.
We do not yet have a good
alternative
framework to the kind that trade advocates use.
Never mind the inconvenient truth that the acts may be theologically impermissible; the ends justify the means, and there really is no
alternative.
The
alternative
would be a 1930’s-style depression.
In short, Europe’s leaders – and German leaders above all – must make the case that the
alternative
is too dire to contemplate.
But it remains possible that his candidacy will crash as some of his rivals drop out and leave their supporters (and wealthy backers) to crystallize around someone they see as a more viable
alternative.
If it is terminal, then, given the present power relations in the world, it can only lead to one alternative, namely international anarchy, because there is no existent system and no possible combination of states that can supplant the role which the United States currently plays.
But if these processes can be handled responsibly, if Europe unites, if the EU expands, if NATO expands, if the American-Chinese relationship is more cooperative, if there is greater sharing of political responsibility for the fate of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, particularly once there is a peace treaty between Israel and its neighbors, if there is triangular discourse, cooperation, security arrangements eventually in the Far East, if Russia realizes that its only destiny is not the recreation of an empire that claims the status of a global power but as part of a more closely integrated Europe, which will create for the Russian people the opportunity to become a truly democratic and modern state, then we'll have the makings of something which provides gradually an
alternative
to the present, rather unique, phase of American preponderance.
The twentieth century was dominated by a debate over the social organization of the human condition based on
alternative
concepts of history and even of human personality.
Now, in the midst of inflationary stagnation, voters may be questioning that
alternative.
In short, laissez-faire and international technocracy does not provide a plausible
alternative
to the nation-state.
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