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Fukushima has highlighted how vulnerable spent-fuel ponds are to direct damage or disruption of power, water, or pumps for cooling.
Such outcomes are at least as plausible or likely – if not more so – than a massive earthquake and tsunami causing widespread damage to four Japanese nuclear reactors and their adjacent spent-fuel ponds.
But while purposeful and nefarious infectious-disease outbreaks could do massive damage, they remain relatively unlikely.
But overfishing and pollution are causing tremendous damage.
We are also proposing that an international convention be adopted to establish liability and compensation for both economic losses and ecological damage caused by offshore oil and gas exploration and production, which should also always be subject to legally binding safety protocols.
Such measures as the efforts by the European Parliament to regulate the derivatives market or the British government’s ban on short selling in the wake of the financial crisis or the demand to caps bankers’ bonuses are contemporary expressions of the wish to reduce the power of financial speculation to damage the economy.
And we must recognize the damage caused by child marriage, including to girls’ sexual and reproductive health.
The damage that can be done by such distorted journalism is especially severe in Africa, offending African value systems, distracting African energies, and disserving African development.
Aside from the great damage caused by unequal bargaining power outside of the multilateral framework, the path of bilateral negotiations threatens to remove the focus from universal outcomes, which are the bedrock of globalization.
From the current Israeli government’s perspective, then, the correct strategy is to keep the Palestinian government on the West Bank weak and off balance, without quite bringing it down, and to contain Hamas with periodic displays of military power (while destroying long-range missiles that can do serious damage to Israel).
From the beginning, there was no intention to damage the identity of the native-born Arabs, or to merge it with the traditional Jewish identity.
Who would have believed that one administration could do so much damage so quickly?
By having two children, a hypothetical American woman who switches to a fuel-efficient car, drives less, recycles, installs efficient light bulbs and energy-saving windows, would do as much damage as “nearly 40 times what she had saved by those actions.”
If you are really worried about those extra emissions, you could offset the damage caused by your child’s lifetime emissions for about $23,400 (€19,600) in the European Union’s emissions trading system.
A global survey of all scientific estimates of the costs of climate change damage, undertaken by the United Nations climate panel, found that global warming right now has about a zero net cost.
The scarcity of primary commodities and damage from climate change in recent years contributed to the destabilization of the world economy that gave rise to the current crisis.
Their objective was to damage further the Israeli-Egyptian relationship, which is already more fragile than ever, and they succeeded: the IDF accidentally killed several Egyptian soldiers during the incident.
Politically, the Trump administration has already done serious damage to America’s international standing by justifying tariffs against allies’ exports on the grounds of “national security.”
A third of these cases were in Africa, accounting for almost 700,000 lives and economic damage of about $27 billion.
If Africa fails to find the money to finance adaptation, the total damage could amount to 7% of Africa’s GDP by the end of this century.
A regulatory regime that gave unfair advantages to local businesses would hurt consumers, hamper innovation, and damage competitiveness.
Indeed, outsourcing or cutting Doing Business could damage the World Bank’s standing.
If the EU refuses to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine at the upcoming Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv on December 19 because of Tymoshenko’s imprisonment, the damage to the country will be vast and enduring.
Such a rivalry, Medvedev implied, would damage the country’s well-being and image.
The real danger is not that Trump will do what he says if he reaches the White House, but the damage caused by what he says as he tries to get there.
But the damage caused by then could be severe.
Considering the damage Japan's disastrous macroeconomic performance has done to Asia and the world, along with the apparent inability of the Japanese to enjoy spending money on themselves, perhaps Japan’s government should unilaterally transfer bundles of yen to other Asian countries, or to poor countries everywhere, for development projects and relief of poverty, requiring only that these yen be spent in Japan.
From my professional vantage point, I sense a mounting risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences.
Otherwise, risking major brand damage, they will end up adding yet another item to an already-overloaded plate of challenges for the next generation.
The damage to the rest of the world economy, I believe, can remain limited.
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