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Better, then, to get on with it before more damage is done.
Torture and the Politics of AmbiguityEach new revelation of physical abuse, maltreatment, and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers shocks international public opinion, leaving officials to scramble desperately to contain the damage.
To put this in context, the Paris climate agreement’s promises will cost more than $1 trillion annually and deliver carbon cuts worth much less – most likely every dollar spent will prevent climate damage worth a couple of cents.
Recently, however, effective methods for amplifying prions have been developed, which could enable detection of the pathogen before it can damage its host.
The organizations the harassers represent would also benefit from reducing the risk of serious reputational damage.
Towering levels of corruption damage not only the authority of government at home, but the very standing of Georgia as an independent state abroad.
Is it unreasonable to point out that the inevitable creation of trade barriers that will ensue from Waxman-Markey could eventually cost the world ten times more than the damage climate change could ever have wrought?
These subsidies do not just undermine efforts to reduce environmental damage from emissions; they also tend to benefit the rich significantly more than the poor.
But it is difficult to overstate the potential damage.
By exiting the EU, the UK would severely damage its economic interests, losing both the single market and London’s role as a financial center.
This reallocation can damage long-term economic development if those sectors nurture learning by doing and fuel broader productivity gains.
And the downsides to the practice – irreparable damage to the athlete’s health, not to mention to their and their country’s reputation, if they get caught – seem not to outweigh the potential benefits in the eyes of ambitious coaches and athletes.
Gene drive elements could potentially reverse much of this damage.
The damage to the credibility of the WTO – once lauded as the greatest advance in global governance since the inspired institution-building of the immediate postwar period – may yet prove lasting.
But its continued success depends ultimately on the credibility of the WTO itself; it will inevitably suffer collateral damage from a failure of multilateral negotiations.
But the EU must go further than just Brexit damage control.
Unfortunately, China seems determined to remain on its current course – an approach that could do irreparable and severe damage to Asia’s environment, economy, and political stability.
Repairing the damage will not be easy.
Hurricanes have killed close to 300 people in the region this season, and damage estimates so far stand at $224 billion.
But the number of lives lost and the amount of damage caused reflect human decisions.
In a city with more far-sighted planning controls, there would have been fewer lives lost and less damage.
Despite the clear and mounting evidence of the cost-effectiveness of timely action to mitigate the damage storms cause, the world spends far more on post-disaster aid and reconstruction than it does on mitigation, and this is especially true in poor countries.
We think of hurricanes as natural and irresistible events, so all we can do is reduce the loss of life and the damage they cause.
The cost of repairing the damage must be taken into account in the cost-benefit discussion of switching to clean sources of energy and reducing methane emissions from the meat industry.
I am convinced that this is a misguided strategy – not only because of the uncertainty about the dangers that global warming might pose, but also because of the certainty of the damage that these proposed policies aimed at mitigation will impose.
For investors, it means looking beyond short-term returns, in order to avoid the damage to a company’s long-term health and wellbeing that can result when relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, and the communities in which it operates are not properly maintained.
But more realistic estimates put environmental damage at 8-13% of China’s GDP growth each year, which means that China has lost almost everything it has gained since the late 1970’s due to pollution.
But China also has suffered a century’s worth of environmental damage in 30 years.
But in the long run, clean energy will be the only way to bring economic growth without doing irreparable environmental damage.
By the end of the century, the extra increase in agricultural productivity would be far greater than the damage to agricultural productivity suggested by even the worst-case scenarios of the effects of global warming.
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