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The substitution of forests by maize, rape, and other oilseed cultivation reduces the stock of biomass and likewise leads to an increase in the
concentration
of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Human actions – burning fossil fuels – have already raised the carbon dioxide
concentration
higher than it has ever been in the last 500,000 years, and it is rising by about 0.5 % a year.
If that continues, the
concentration
of CO2 will rise to twice the pre-industrial level by 2050, and three times that level later in the century.
Yet unless the rising curve of annual emissions can be reversed, the CO2
concentration
will irrevocably reach a truly threatening level.
The problem in China is not the volume of state-owned assets, but their
concentration
in a few companies and industries – a situation that poses risks to economic performance.
Despite this huge
concentration
of powers in the presidency, or perhaps because of it, the Fifth Republic has failed to perform better than more democratic Western regimes.
Publicly Funded InequalityWASHINGTON, DC – One of the factors driving the massive rise in global inequality and the
concentration
of wealth at the very top of the income distribution is the interplay between innovation and global markets.
What is often overlooked, however, is the role that public money plays in creating this modern
concentration
of private wealth.
Thanks to such public outlays, a few private players are often making huge returns, which are a major cause of excessive income
concentration.
A map of my own fate would encompass Bukovina as my native land, the Transdnistrian
concentration
camp of my childhood, the Communist labor camp Periprava where my father’s identity was altered, the Bucharest of my student years and my adulthood, Berlin, my exile’s starting point, and finally New York, where my exile found its residence.
Germany’s political leaders – the Kohl-Genscher-generation who had experienced the war – understood that a united Germany would represent such a
concentration
of economic strength in Europe that it would inevitably disturb political balances within the EU.
These include educational opportunity and performance, the relationship between productivity and wage growth, the
concentration
of economic rents, the effectiveness of the financial system’s intermediation of investment in the real economy, physical and digital infrastructure, and the coverage and adequacy of basic social protections.
The policy was a success: the discipline imposed by strict and rigorous
concentration
on a sole objective enabled policymakers to control – and then conquer – inflation.
While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious concerns of the world’s working and middle classes about their prospects in the face of the growing
concentration
of power among economic, financial, and political elites.
Built in the early 1940s as a “regular” labor camp, Perm-36 was converted into a
concentration
camp for political prisoners in 1972.
Cynics will suspect that Luxembourg and Norway have managed to sustain this dynamic only because of their peculiar economic structures (a
concentration
in finance in the former, and in natural resources in the latter).
The Dutch labor market has the highest
concentration
of part-time and freelance workers in Europe, with nearly 50% of all Dutch workers, and 62% of young workers, engaged in part-time employment – a luxury afforded to them by the country’s relatively high hourly wages.
As part of a recent nationwide census, we collected data from thousands of mothers and girls in Bangladesh’s three industrial districts with the highest
concentration
of ready-made garment factories (particularly those operating outside the Export Processing Zones): Ashulia, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.
In 1945, an estimated two million women were victims of the Red Army’s sexual cruelties – not only German women, but also Jewish women in hiding,
concentration
camp survivors, and resistance fighters.
On that spot, that Golgotha of modern times, he called the Poles, who remembered dear ones gassed to death in Auschwitz's crematoria as well as those frozen into glass in Siberia's
concentration
camps, to a brotherhood devoted to struggle against even justified hatred and revenge.
Kim Jong Il's father similarly ensured a smooth succession a decade ago by appointing family members to positions of power for 40 years, clearing the way by sending the incumbents to
concentration
camps.
Contrary to what many Western economists think, the worst economic breakdowns are not the result of free markets gone haywire, but of excessive
concentration
of political power.
Yet, while large global firms habitually use their high
concentration
of financial resources to press for further de-regulation (“or we will go somewhere else”), the crisis has turned their size into a liability.
Carnegie’s treatise, an American classic, provides a moral justification for the
concentration
of wealth that capitalism tends to create by arguing that immense wealth leads to well-spent charitable contributions and support of the arts and sciences.
The public-spirited justification of the
concentration
of wealth offered in “The Gospel of Wealth” has more support in the United States than elsewhere, which reflects Americans’ relatively greater admiration of business people.
It ranks among the great ironies of history that these two brilliant men, credited with saving millions from starvation, are also infamous for other work done later: Haber, a German Jew, was a central force in developing poison gas in World War I (and also performed research that led to the Zyklon B poison gas later used in
concentration
camps);Bosch, an ardent anti-Nazi, founded the giant chemical company I.G.
But, while System II choices may be more effective than System-I decisions, they are more “expensive” to make: one needs data, analysis, and
concentration.
Another fundamental communist tenet has been the
concentration
of industrial production in a small number of gigantic monopolistic enterprises.
On one hand, there is reason to worry about certain Internet companies’
concentration
of market power, particularly in online content and distribution, and about the effects of new technologies on personal privacy, law enforcement, and national security.
Historically, the US has added disproportionately to the rising
concentration
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and among large countries it remains the biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide by far – more than twice China’s rate and nearly 2.5 times more than Europe in 2013 (the latest year for which the World Bank has reported complete data).
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