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In fact, meeting higher electricity demand and achieving national targets for production of biofuels and other alternative fuels would require a more than twofold increase in global water use for energy production over the next quarter-century.
But there is also an alternative, much less ambitious view, according to which neither fiscal nor political union is needed.
First, though, economic policymakers around the world will have to shake off the neoliberal paradigm, which has left them incapable of imagining alternative policy approaches.
My hunch is that the court’s well-meaning officials were too influenced by the South African Peace and Reconciliation Commission, a model touted in law schools as the desired alternative to retributive justice.
The problem is that Hatoyama, in backing away from the agreed plan, has no viable alternative to offer.
To be sure, finding an alternative location for the US base is extremely difficult, as Japanese are as prone to NIMBY (not in my backyard) reactions as anyone else.
The Obama administration should have tried – and should still try – an alternative approach.
A second promising alternative source of fresh water is fog: a vertical mesh can be used to capture moisture from the air, with the droplets accumulating in a tank or distribution system.
In practical terms, China’s Silk Road project will create a strategic alternative to Western transatlantic structures, with Russia either accepting a role as a permanent junior partner or risking serious conflict with China in Central Asia.
The alternative to the talks is a further nuclear buildup by Iran, followed by additional international sanctions and, eventually, another war in the Middle East, which no one believes can resolve the problem.
But there is an alternative that essentially means playing by the rules of a normal market economy: a debt-for-equity swap.
Yet if farmed solutions were ever to be seen as an alternative to wild harvesting, other breeders would need to replicate such conditions.
This influence does not imply a hegemonic relationship, but rather points to an alternative path for reform and economic development that other primarily Muslim countries might take.
The alternative may well be global conflagration.
Defined-contribution, fully-funded systems are often lauded as the feasible alternative.
The alternative – persisting with the current approach and, in the process, running the risk of turning technical dislocations into much more damaging longer-term economic and financial disruptions – would also prove problematic for other emerging economies.
The preferred alternative for these individuals is to wait to buy insurance until they are ill and are facing large medical bills.
The normal cells of women carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations can still recombine, because they retain one functional allele—or alternative form—of the gene.
These are the groups criticized by the Obama administration and others for their failure to present a united front, formulate a credible agenda, or be seen as a viable alternative to the current regime.
Gates supports this second-best alternative to making robots “pay” income tax.
There is an alternative to a robot tax that is easy to implement and simple to justify: a universal basic dividend (UBD), financed from the returns on all capital.
Successful models and effective policies can be shared and emulated more easily than ever, which will persuade more people than ever that there is no alternative to the rule of law if China’s modernization is to continue.
Those climbers who believe that continuing would “honor” the lost Sherpas should consider alternative ways to express their reverence.
The alternative explanation for the persistence of weak global growth has been best formulated by the Bank for International Settlements, an organization of central banks.
But can China really provide the alternative solutions needed to keep the engines of globalization running?
That uncertainty underscores a central point: while the liberal world order could be in trouble, a Chinese-led alternative is not yet discernible.
The only alternative would be a meaningful debt restructuring to end Greece’s insolvency.
They also serve as an alternative to the banking sector, mobilizing investments, driving economic growth, and helping to stabilize financial sectors by providing alternate sources of funding and different approaches to risk.
As unemployment again rises to catastrophic heights, they will have no alternative, it is said, but to abandon the euro unilaterally.
The alternative – converting those other instruments into the new national currency – would tie up the offending country in litigation for years.
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