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A major North Korean cyber attack could disable or destroy parts of the US’s critical infrastructure, and cause massive economic and financial damage.
The longer a bubble lasts, the more damage it causes.
The damage to Russia’s economic growth prospects from the Yukos affair may yet prove temporary, barring a repeat performance with other companies.
But this seems like collateral damage from the pursuit of an overriding political objective.
If so, the damage caused by the Yukos affair should be minimal.
The jury is still out, but it may be that there is no safe level of exposure to many common radiations; the more we are exposed, the more damage we do.
In 1941, the powerful Japanese navy used many resources to create damage thousands of miles away.
The so-called “love bug virus,” launched in the Phillipines in 2000, is estimated to have cost billions of dollars in damage.
By investing not only in systems to provide clean drinking water and sanitation, but also in educational programs that encourage better hygiene practices and toilet use, governments can break a vicious cycle of diarrhea and malnutrition that causes irreversible physical and cognitive damage.
There is a speech that we still need to hear, detailing five tasks that, in order to repair the damage to liberty caused by the previous administration, he must pursue as quickly as he handled the first two executive orders.
Given that these boundaries are closely interlinked, allowing trends toward any of them to continue, especially at the current rate, would drive the environment into unknown territory, potentially causing serious damage to the systems that underpin human survival.
But if it is always regarded as relevant, the worst damage may be avoided.
Every effort must be made to ensure that future disagreements, which will undoubtedly arise, do less damage.
The second danger is that source countries’ unwillingness to take spillovers into account causes unintended collateral damage in recipient countries, prompting self-interested action on their part.
In other words, financial markets are responding to environment-related risks and opportunities, but far too slowly to halt, let alone reverse, the potentially catastrophic damage being wrought by human activity.
Last, but certainly not least, climate change is already causing significant damage, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and lethal.
So transatlantic coordination is needed, to ensure that any trade of sophisticated arms and weapons-related technologies with China does nothing to enhance China’s military power, and that competition between Western producers of goods that may legitimately be sold to China does not damage Western political unity.
In any case, the political damage they inflicted on the liberal cause was too great to be repaired by subsequent economic recovery.
What is certain, however, is that, the longer we allow Trump to distort our system, the more difficult it will be to limit or repair the damage.
Such a Yalta 2.0 moment would then fuel anti-Americanism in Europe and compound the geopolitical damage suffered by the West.
Where such damage looms as a threat, early prevention is required.
Argentina's crisis at the end of 2001 looked remarkably like Argentina's Baring Brothers crisis of 1890 -- save that politicians and international bankers seem to have had a much better idea of what to do to minimize the damage in 1890 than they do today.
In August 1945, a plutonium bomb decimated the city, causing massive physical damage and untold human suffering.
Tymoshenko’s Trial and Ukraine’s FutureSTOCKHOLM – There is little doubt that the embarrassing spectacle of the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko – and her recent arrest on contempt charges during the proceedings – is causing great damage to her country.
The big problem is that the core of the world’s financial system has become unstable, and reckless risk-taking will once again lead to great collateral damage.
Unmitigated climate change could also result in severe damage to labor productivity – the single most important driver of any country’s prosperity.
Today, a trade war would damage all economies.
Furthermore, because these countries no longer faced current-account constraints, they could spend beyond their means without any immediate apparent damage to their economies.
This damage will become worse, with risks becoming unmanageable if emissions of greenhouse gases are not reduced to net zero levels between 2055 and 2070.
As Balluch writes: “A law banning a whole industry does far more economic damage to the animal abuse industry than anything else the animal movement could do.”
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