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As Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrated, nuclear safety vulnerabilities in one country can have profound consequences for the rest of the world.
This cycle disproportionately affects infants and young children, who suffer devastating consequences from malnutrition, including mental impairment, difficulty learning in school, and poor health generally.
House Republicans, drawing on work by scholars at the Hoover Institution, have argued that modifying the bankruptcy code – creating a so-called Chapter 14 – would allow such firms to fail without the risk of adverse systemic consequences.
The main lesson from the experience of 2008 and the subsequent deep recession is that it is much better to prevent big banks from failing than to deal with the consequences when they do.
As the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran says: "Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a God the consequences are incalculable."
Latin America is not yet cured of these unintended consequences of Guevarism.
As a result, the consequences of a failure to hold elections, a violent crackdown, or a takeover by another authoritarian regime would surely be worse than taking a chance on democracy.
The Balkan wars and their consequences have overtaken the EU's enlargement policy.
However, two undesirable consequences could follow from the present situation.
Even more unsettling would be the consequences for countries that fall between two stools (neither protectorate nor first circle of enlargement) such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.
In the case of Cyprus, unfortunately, the EU commitment to negotiate now looks more and more like a lethal political detonator, with explosive but incalculable consequences for the future of the European Union, and major dangers for the political and security order in the Eastern Mediterranean.
So the paradox is that the resignation of the outgoing Commission has had political consequences which are the opposite of those assumed by conventional wisdom.
Societies (and politicians) in postcommunist countries -- in some Western countries, too -- must be clear about the consequences of modernization as reform is pursued.
Hamas in PowerThe victory of the fundamentalist Hamas in the Palestinian elections will have far-reaching consequences for the region, some totally unexpected.
Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels – far more than the two degrees that climate scientists have identified as the threshold beyond which the most disastrous consequences of climate change would be triggered.
Meanwhile, in Germany, the elections this September may have surprising consequences for ECB monetary policy.
For them, and for new democracies like Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, Russian energy dominance and its political consequences remain a serious threat.
Yet the potential long-term human and economic consequences of AMR of are not widely appreciated by the public and, in particular, by financial markets.
Policy debates in the US and elsewhere have been turned inside out since the crisis – with potentially devastating consequences.
Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about contemporary technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
But they may be unaware of why these practices are so important, and therefore of the consequences of not adhering to them.
The theme – illustrated in the tagline “Cancer – Did you know?” – offers an opportunity to reflect on cancer’s true consequences and enhance global prevention and treatment efforts.
Likewise, hepB vaccines are 95% effective at preventing infection and its chronic consequences.
That is why we must step up our efforts to boost our resilience to the climate effects we won’t be able to avoid, and address the associated security consequences.
Some might argue that the safety and health benefits of bottled water offset these environmental consequences.
To be sure, these consequences are not going unnoticed.
But such language fails to capture the full scale of the consequences – especially their impact on human lives.
In our increasingly interconnected world, there are new risks whose consequences could be widespread – and perhaps global.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance – multiplying probability by consequences – we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
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