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Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the capacity for “assured destruction” – that is, the ability to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.
Aside from slowing growth, that reality includes severe environmental damage, one result of decades of rapid, coal-fueled industrialization.
While a poorly executed profit-sharing program could do serious damage, that is no reason to reject the idea altogether.
At the same time, the number of attacks – from insults to property damage to bodily harm – against elected officials tripled in 2016.
France was pursuing its own Gaullist goal of strengthening French national prestige by inflicting damage or even humiliation upon the US.
In many cases, they do so because investments undertaken in the name of development can disrupt the actual needs of local populations, are imposed against the population’s will, can expose members of the affected community to serious human-rights risks, and can damage the local ecosystem.
In financial markets, an unexpected collapse in real-estate securities and design defects in the derivatives and repo markets combined to damage core financial institutions’ ability make good on their payment obligations.
While the basic risks originated outside the systems – a tsunami for Fukushima, over-investment in real-estate mortgages for financial institutions – design defects and bad luck meant that the system couldn’t contain the damage.
But little of importance has yet been done to prevent the damage that derivatives and repo bankruptcy priorities could cause in another financial-system meltdown.
To compensate for the damage that their reckless behavior caused, they received €303 billion ($378 billion) in extra credit through Target, the European Central Bank's interbank payment settlement system, and can now expect a further €100 billion in help from the European Financial Stability Facility.
Likewise, we all heard Al Gore talking about the dramatic hurricane years of 2004 and 2005, but we’ve heard almost nothing about the complete absence of hurricane damage in 2006 and 2007.
The German economy had come to a near-halt, and more austerity would have caused more – and possibly long-lasting – damage.
On top of the damage from the global economy’s woes, the eurozone was faced with a looming Greek government bankruptcy.
And those people can no longer afford to ignore the lasting damage done to their environment, communities, and families.
How can they be understood without being judged, or helped without humiliating paternalism or, still worse, without an unacceptable “collateral damage,” as in Afghanistan?
The disaster that followed illustrated the damage that an uncontrolled failure can produce.
That pressure is all the more intense, given that the countries most affected by this humanitarian challenge – Greece, Italy, and Spain – also incurred the most damage from the financial crisis.
Otherwise, the world will suffer irreversible damage in the form of rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, and deterioration of both land and marine ecosystems, including the potential extinction of the world’s coral reefs.
Regardless of the West’s response to the Crimean crisis, the economic damage to Russia will be vast.
Moreover, the most important source of potential damage to Russia’s economy lies elsewhere.
A giant fiscal stimulus in both countries has helped prevent further damage temporarily, but where is the needed change?
But the damage done to America’s image, and to the global economy, will only be further compounded by Trump’s early decisions on trade.
While today’s proposed pay restrictions are unlikely to stop the next financial crisis, they are likely to damage the financial sector.
And, though the costs of climate damage are staggering, scientific research indicates that mitigation costs are manageable.
And no environmental damage has been detected.
Businesses that ignore the broader social and environmental context in which they operate are likely to pay a price: reputational damage and loss of brand value, falling sales, difficulties in recruiting talent, lower worker productivity, corruption, tougher government regulation, or an increase in climate-change-related costs.
Similarly, American and European clothing companies have been struggling to contain the reputational damage caused by lethal working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories.
As it stands, one-third of people aged 65-70 (and half of those over 75) experience significant hearing loss, often caused by damage to or loss of inner-ear hair cells, which sense and transform sound waves into signals that register in the brain.
Even accounting for the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money, with avoided damages of just $685 billion for our $800 billion investment.
The typical cost of cutting a ton of CO2 is now about $20, but the damage from a ton of carbon in the atmosphere is about $2.
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