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Given his penchant for oversimplification, Trump not only fails to deal effectively with the problems at hand; his short-sighted policies will likely trigger unintended consequences, and possibly even the so-called butterfly effect, whereby remote minor events can trigger the failure of complex systems.
While the public is pushing back, complacency is already beginning to take hold, with previously unimaginable actions and events being rationalized, normalized, and accepted.
The Fallout from India’s Nuclear TestsNEW YORK: India’s test of five nuclear bombs in two days (setting off three in a day is something new in history) is one of those rare events that redraws the map of the world.
The American film director Martin Scorsese is now completing an adaptation of these events, based on Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence.
The successors to those dictators, however, found this turn of events to be an unwanted complication in their political “thaws”; more sophisticated mechanisms to induce fear among their peoples were needed, and there are few deterrents to dissident activity more potent than the threat of removal to an institution for the criminally insane.
The official version of these events was that the EU was obliged to intervene to force a wayward population back to the path of fiscal rectitude and structural reform.
They recognized the dramatic implications that even this amount of warming would have for sea levels, freshwater supplies, agriculture, extreme weather events, public health, and the planet’s flora and fauna.
This escalation will, of course, be driven largely by the increasingly frequent and intense weather events associated with higher global temperatures.
Kaufman understands that successful reform requires three ingredients: arguments that persuade, the ability to bring colleagues along, and a good deal of luck in the form of events that highlight problems at just the right time.
From South Africa to Burma, there are clear and positive precedents for such a turn of events.
As we know from the recent events, they have not yet been entirely successful; the resentment among Tibetans runs too deep.
It also resurrected the unwarranted claim that global warming was to blame for such events, together with the morally irresponsible argument that we should help future hurricane victims by cutting CO2 emissions.
Even as FIFA, the world football association, or the International Olympic Committee insist that they are above politics, their grand events are politically exploited by all kinds of regimes, some of them less than savory.
And the more FIFA and the IOC protest their political innocence, the better it is for regimes that use international sporting events for their own ends.
Indeed, many consequences of a hotter planet – such as more extreme weather events, sea-level rise, environmental migration, and mounting social tensions – intersect in urban areas.
Extreme weather events, from droughts to floods, will intensify and become more frequent.
With the increasing pattern of internal, rather than international, armed conflicts, and the rising regularity of extreme weather events affecting millions of people, internal displacement poses an even greater challenge to future generations.
Indeed, events in China in recent months have revealed internal unease.
These and other studies link female arousal to women’s freedom from “bad stress” and support in relaxation – and in their having some sense of control over events affecting them.
Such events reinforce the tendency of modern political regimes, dictatorships as well as democracies, to measure themselves in monumental building projects – giant new stadiums, gargantuan shopping malls, huge conference halls – which are sometimes needed, but often are not.
Indeed, in Brussels, events are organized for members of the European Parliament, the business community, and even high school students.
In this environment, more than a few Chinese reacted to the events of September 11 th with barely disguised satisfaction.
But, for both sides, as well as external powers, the events of 1948 and what has followed – the occupation since 1967 of the remaining lands of historic Palestine – represents a tragic failure.
As my coauthors and I show in a new book, the share of dollars in the foreign-currency reserves held by central banks and governments worldwide hardly budged in the face of these events.
Preparations for any future scenario in Asia will require more complete data to judge the potential impact and timing of climate-related events, and to assess their effect on migration patterns.
That is more than any other UK media organization, and it doesn’t include informal gatherings, dinner parties, and events surrounding high-level meetings.
Many of these shocks constituted events that had previously been considered unthinkable.
Such developments have been called “black swans” – events of inconceivably tiny probability.
Many Americans did not know the history of terrorist events in other countries and other decades.
No matter: he kept his profile high by asking to meet America's Ambassador, saying that he knew of a Polish role in the events of September 11 th .
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