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So on the three most plausible principles of fairness that can be applied to climate change – equal shares, need, and historical responsibility – the US should make drastic cuts to its greenhouse-gas emissions.
These representatives – with whom I've interacted at three congressional hearings recently – are convinced that the US federal government is too big relative to the economy, and that drastic measures are needed to bring it under control.
The prospect of such a drastic reduction in its export revenues would be sobering for the Kremlin, especially given the difficulty of finding alternative markets.
Finally, European governments seem to be competing to carry out the most drastic fiscal adjustment.
This diminished my ministry’s capacity to repay the International Monetary Fund, which was insisting on drastic pension cuts and on the removal of the last protections for Greek workers.
Poverty has doubled and open unemployment has risen to 14%, but those hardest hit by the financial crash were those in the new upper middle class, leading to a drastic decline in income differentials.
After Argentina’s unilateral default in 2001, many investors saw more clearly the need to allow explicitly for less drastic alternatives ahead of time, and so incorporated so-called “collective action clauses” into debt contracts.
The concrete action that they had in mind was getting governments to mandate drastic cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions.
With a global recession looming and high oil and food prices undermining the living standards of the Western middle class, it is becoming ever harder to sell the high-cost, inefficient Kyoto-style solution of drastic carbon cuts.
The drastic deterioration in Turkey’s relations with Israel is related to this emerging Iranian-Turkish rivalry.
Nothing short of a drastic change in the conflict’s nature that threatened America’s core interests would lead to direct US involvement.
Chase described his new deal in general terms as “the drastic and progressive revision of the economic structure, avoiding an utter break with the past.”
Another war would eliminate what little hope there is of achieving debt stability without drastic – and harmful – spending cuts (or tax increases).
Without a drastic change in Israeli politics and society, however, Obama will continue to play it safe, minimizing his vulnerabilities.
They arrive late; shy away from drastic measures; avoid using the most powerful ammunition.
To work, restructuring must come early and needs to be drastic, otherwise a debt problem becomes a problem of default, bank collapse and currency collapse.
Their opponents, meanwhile, exaggerated the phenomenon’s likely impact – and, as a consequence, dogmatically fixated on drastic, short-term carbon cuts as the only solution, despite overwhelming evidence that such cuts would be cripplingly expensive and woefully ineffective.
For so-called “alarmists,” pointing out what’s wrong with drastic carbon cuts is somehow tantamount to denying the reality of climate change, while so-called “deniers” lambast anyone who accepts the scientific evidence supporting this “mythical” problem.
If a crisis hits, they must resort to drastic measures, such as removing their children from school to save money, or selling the assets that they use to generate income, such as land or livestock, thus jeopardizing their ability to cope with future shocks.
At the same time, too drastic a change could be self-defeating for struggling center-left parties.
To change completely the government’s distorting behavior, however, requires more drastic political changes.
First, drastic financial deleveraging is unavoidable.
Nuclear accidents, public opposition, and high capital costs have already provoked a drastic drop in nuclear-energy investment; in the United States, no nuclear-power plant has been commissioned since the late 1970’s.
The cost of drastic, short-term carbon cuts is too high.
A situation in which the US muddles through with growth that is positive but slower than the growth rate of potential output--today's conditions--is unlikely to prompt drastic action from the Fed.
True, the disappearance of growth is abrupt and more drastic than a soft landing; the carnage in high tech is pretty awful.
The immediate need is for a drastic reduction of existing balance-sheet risks.
Rapid evolutionary change, or “contemporary evolution,” is not drastic; humans are not likely to sprout wings a few generations down the road.
And early action is essential to avoid the need for much more drastic – and costly – efforts later.
Of course, all of this had drastic implications for the economy.
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