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This is a long and difficult enterprise, but there remains no alternative.
Summers is also right to find it “terrifying that the US now has its first post-rational president who denies science, proposes arithmetically unsound budgets, and embraces alternative facts.”
No alternative form of energy is efficient enough to compete with fossil fuels at scale.
Alternative sources of energy have been hyped by corporate lobbyists and a credulous media to appear far more ready for widespread use than they really are.
Denmark is presented as a model for the rest of the world to follow, evidence that green job creation has been proven easy, and that wind power has been shown to be a cheap alternative.
As the Copenhagen Consensus, as well as the World Bank recently advocated, R&D investments on the order of $100 billion a year will be needed if wind and other alternative technologies are to become truly viable.
The alternative is a continuation of the status quo, with poorly performing companies propped up in the name of job preservation and social stability – even as they raise risks for Chinese banks.
Of course, the alternative is no safer.
Here, a vital step would be for the West to begin to envisage Iran as a potential alternative supplier of gas, by offering to link Iran to the proposed White Stream and Nabucco pipelines that are currently under development to bring Central Asian gas to Europe.
This sclerotic arrangement, however, has enabled those same right-wing populists to present themselves as the only alternative to “the system.”
The alternative strategy lies at the opposite end of the distribution of firm size – with big business.
The alternative, an increase in tax revenues by almost 50% in the span of a few years, simply is not feasible.
Similarly, patients from Qatar who traveled to Manila are “looking for alternative solutions,” according to The Peninsula .
Millions of impoverished, unemployed young people now seek an alternative, which Boko Haram, with its incendiary rhetoric blaming the country’s leaders for the population’s troubles, can provide.
They know that the alternative is not a return to centralism, but secession by the three Kurdish-majority provinces of Dahuk, Arbil, and As Sulaymaniyah to form an independent Kurdistan, with its own treasury, army (the Pesh Merga), and oil production around Kirkuk – the second-largest reserves in Iraq.
An alternative to requiring pre-trading disclosure is to adopt a “hands-off” arrangement that leaves executives no discretion over when their equity-based compensation is cashed out.
Unless the international community provides a clear alternative, more migrants can be expected to crowd onto rickety vessels and risk their lives to reach Europe.
But this time they are likely to face a third alternative: Mayawati, whose Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) may command a bloc of at least 50 seats.
As a result, it would not be subject to the multiple legal challenges that a more radical alternative would run into.
That possibility is not just a theoretical construct in fringe debates two decades ago; it is a real historical alternative.
It would be kept stable by the institutions that already exist today, the European Central Bank and those national central banks that have no new alternative.
Monetarists tell an alternative but parallel story of how stable monetary growth avoids radical perturbations.
And closer integration with Canada’s vast energy resources could provide Europe with an attractive alternative to its heavy reliance on imports from Russia and the Middle East.
The alternative of allowing this fight to the death to play out – a proposal heard daily on American talkathon television – is not worthy of our civilization.
The world must assist Russia in seeing to it that alternative supply routes for the rebels do not materialize.
The alternative – standing back and letting the markets handle things – would have brought America and the world higher unemployment than now exists.
Parfit’s entirely secular arguments, and the comprehensive way in which he tackles alternative positions, have, for the first time in decades, put those who reject objectivism in ethics on the defensive.
Many proponents of the euro claimed that it would quickly evolve as an alternative reserve currency alongside the dollar, or even replace it, in global markets.
Most of world trade is still invoiced in dollars, but the euro has gradually emerged as a viable alternative – a strong currency backed by the hard-earned inflation credibility of the European Central Bank.
They also do not seem to realize that an energy tax is a much cheaper way for Europe to protect itself from Iran and Russia than alternative means, such as a defense buildup.
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