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Unless these networks are highly resilient, their manifest benefits could be outweighed by catastrophic (albeit rare) breakdowns.
European Union officials argue that it would be catastrophic to restructure any member’s debts proactively.
If we make today’s problems the excuse for failure to save the environment, we will simply pile up much bigger – and potentially catastrophic – problems tomorrow.
If Italy tried to leave the euro, it would have to default on its debt, which would be catastrophic not only for Italy, but for all of Europe and even for the global financial system.
For example, welfare-economy countries provide free education for all and skills training for any age, so that workers can move up the labor-market value chain; social security for the unemployed, so that a temporary loss of work does not become a personally catastrophic event; and highly developed systems of care for children, the elderly, and vulnerable members of society, so that workers do not have to choose between employment and caring for loved ones.
Instead, we faced a catastrophic economic situation: runaway inflation, unsustainably high interest rates, a collapsed currency, and a general loss of confidence.
We are not good at giving the appropriate weight to low-risk events, however catastrophic they may be, and we are more concerned about saving identifiable people than about saving lives when we don’t know whose will be saved.
Easing sanctions now, with so little progress having been made under the latest Minsk agreement, would amount to a catastrophic collapse in Europe’s impact and credibility – and a major loss for Ukraine.
The Arctic Council has warned that more shipping traffic will increase the risk of catastrophic oil spills.
Their strength of will and promises of national greatness entice a public following; but if there is one lesson of this kind of pathology in power, it is that the long-term results are inescapably catastrophic for all.
Even more compelling than the benefits of achieving an agreement, though, are the potentially catastrophic consequences of failure.
They survived the catastrophic mass extinction that finished off Tyrannosaurus Rex and all the rest, as well as the Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out around 96% of marine species.
The climate crisis is the new wall that divides us from our future, and current leaders are vastly underestimating the urgency, and potentially catastrophic scale, of the emergency.
At that time, annual inflation in the US exceeded 2%, and the risk of it becoming negative was indeed remote; but Bernanke nonetheless felt it necessary to map out an escape route from a potentially catastrophic scenario.
Of course, the reason why banking supervision – and financial regulation more generally – has higher political salience now is obvious: The financial crisis of 2008 showed that bank failures could have catastrophic consequences for the economy as a whole.
Human history, too, has been marked by catastrophic microbe-caused plagues.
Much has changed, thanks to global capitalism, European integration, the stigmatization of national feeling by two catastrophic world wars, and, perhaps most importantly, the widespread loss of religious faith.
Raising one’s voice to hide weakness is a dangerous strategy that can have catastrophic results.
Potentially catastrophic consequences await, not just for polar bears, but for millions of people.
South Korean public opinion is split on how to handle the North, but the majority fear that a sudden collapse would have catastrophic effects on the South’s economy.
The core message of the NPT must continue to resonate: so long as anyone has nuclear weapons, others will want them; so long as anyone has them, they are bound one day to be used, by accident or miscalculation, if not by design; and any such use would be catastrophic not just for the states immediately affected, but for life on this planet.
Will newly anointed World Bank President Robert Zoellick be able to get the organization back on its feet after the catastrophic failed presidency of Paul Wolfowitz?
Are they right to fear potentially catastrophic results from abandoning the dollar?
Another way of thinking about the potential threat of AGI is to compare it to other catastrophic risks.
And, above all, there has been catastrophic international paralysis over Syria.
Regulators are instructed, in no uncertain terms, to make sure that all large financial firms are structured in such a way that bankruptcy, using the standard rules and procedures of the court system, can happen without repeating the catastrophic post-Lehman cascade.
This is a mistake, and possibly a catastrophic one.
The debts that have not been accounted for include the deferred costs of maintenance on roads, water systems, and 54,560 structurally deficient bridges, as well as the yet-to-be-built low-carbon energy systems necessary to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change.
The idealism of Japanese intellectuals in the 1930’s and early 1940’s was partly responsible for Japan’s catastrophic war to “liberate” Asia from Western imperialism.
How preoccupied we are with catastrophic prognoses; how little we take them into account in our lives!
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