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Indeed, many of the alternatives would be more toxic or require more tillage, resulting in damaging soil erosion, increased CO2 emissions, decreased crop yields, greater production costs, and higher consumer prices.
The same kind of
erosion
in home prices could occur in many cities around the world.
In parts of China, India, and Pakistan, for example, nuclear technologies have enabled significant reduction of soil
erosion.
One recent study in the United States called Donald Trump’s presidency the “most unethical” in American history, while Gallup’s annual survey of US attitudes toward morality suggests a steady
erosion
of social mores.
The late nineteenth and the twentieth century produced a different sort of growth, because public policies and resources could be used to protect accumulated wealth from the otherwise inevitable
erosion
stemming from competitive pressure.
Unfortunately, this has led to
erosion
of the rule of law.
Rather than demonstrating hypocrisy and acceptance of the
erosion
of civil liberties, the Snowden disclosures have provoked a debate that suggests the US is living up to its democratic principles in its traditionally untidy ways.
Neither a gradual
erosion
in the US market share of students, nor the emergence of ambitious new competitors in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East means that American universities are on an inevitable path to decline.
In this sense, globalization naturally leads to the
erosion
of democracy.
Broadly, this arrangement still holds today, though hints of its
erosion
became evident some time ago.
Automation and other technological changes, globalization, weaker trade unions,
erosion
of minimum wages, financialization, and changing norms about acceptable pay gaps within enterprises have all played a role, with different weights in the United States relative to Europe.
Long-term joblessness and youth unemployment remain far too high, with skills erosion, reduced mobility, and a growing opportunity gap relative to formal educational attainment risking lasting damage in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Even a serious fracking mishap would be unlikely to cause as much damage as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in 2011, or coal-mining tragedies that play out dramatically in frequent explosions and collapses (and more insidiously in the form of lung disease, water pollution, and soil erosion).
Varieties that are tolerant to drought and flood can not only increase productivity, but also can prevent soil
erosion
and desertification.
But it does mean that there is limited hope for resolving seemingly chronic trade deficits – and the related
erosion
of domestic hiring traceable to these imbalances – if the US doesn’t start saving again.
The G20 and the OECD have already outlined measures to counter tax-avoidance methods such as base
erosion
and profit shifting.
In reality, the gradual
erosion
of national powers in an increasingly interdependent world has made it necessary for member states to forge, by agreement, common solutions to common challenges.
The greatest risk that we run is
erosion
of the Security Council’s credibility, and, with it, a diminishing capacity to confront grave threats to peace.
At the international level, the standing of US-supplied public goods (including the dollar as the global reserve currency) faces gradual
erosion.
The
erosion
of business models and growing dependence on third-party digital distributors – like Facebook and Google – have handcuffed news organizations and cut deeply into their profits.
The result may be an
erosion
of these welfare states themselves.
If the home country were to remain responsible for welfare services to non-working immigrants, the
erosion
of West European welfare states that the theory of systems competition predicts could be halted.
All of this could leave the US more able and willing to halt the multi-year
erosion
of its global economic influence and standing.
Macron embodies a sea change in French electoral politics: the
erosion
of the traditional cleavage between right and left.
In fact, the real effective exchange rate (REER), adjusted by US manufacturing unit labor costs, has depreciated by 30% since 2001, and by 17% since 2005, suggesting a rapid
erosion
of emerging markets’ low-cost advantage – and giving America’s competitiveness a substantial boost.
A government that continues to settle the West Bank and refuses to negotiate with the Palestinians will face
erosion
of its international legitimacy, boycotts, and sanctions.
The
erosion
of the American presidency’s global role certainly did not begin with Trump’s inauguration.
This approach only accelerates the presidency’s
erosion.
Whatever
erosion
the position has suffered, it remains true that, when a US president speaks, people listen.
This
erosion
of professional standards has too often made newspapers willing accomplices of purveyors of manipulated “leaks” and malicious allegations.
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