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With the economic benefits of EU membership now seeming much less than expected, the intensity of pro-EU sentiments in the candidate countries has significantly declined.
(It has made an ambitious commitment in its 11th Five-Year Plan to a 20% reduction in energy intensity and attain a 10% increase in renewable energy by 2010.)
From the European Union to China, economies are vowing to reduce their energy intensity with the help of technological innovations and legislative changes.
The fourth test is one of proportionality: Are the scale, duration, and intensity of the proposed military action the minimum necessary to meet the threat?
By acknowledging the range and intensity of disagreement among states on a right to secede, the Court seems to have hinted that the necessary consent of the world community does not exist to establish firmly the existence of any such right.
Part of the problem may be that Trump has come out on both sides of most major debates, championing a brand of politics that privileges intensity over consistency.
But such is the nuclear industry’s water intensity that EDF withdraws up to 19 billion cubic meters of water per year from rivers and lakes, or roughly half of France’s total freshwater consumption.
In fact, the latest overview of global wildfire incidence suggests that, because humans have suppressed fire and decreased vegetation density, fire intensity has declined over the past 70 years, and is now close to its preindustrial level.
But, while these sectors therefore grow especially fast, their high capital intensity means that they cannot fully employ the released labor, with the result that some of the unemployed workers have nowhere to turn but the welfare state.
Yes, they have implemented a plethora of detailed controls, scrutinizing banks’ books with unprecedented intensity and insisting on approving cash distributions, the appointment of key directors, and even job descriptions for board members.
Global warming is set to put potable-water supplies under increasing strain – even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.
Fortunately, we have not yet reached William Butler Yeats’s bleak scenario, in which “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Hurricanes are measured according to three dimensions: frequency, intensity, and duration.
The big changes are in hurricanes’ intensity and duration.
The total energy of a hurricane is found by multiplying the intensity of the hurricane by its duration.
This means preparing for hurricanes that are more powerful in both intensity and duration.
After all, real resource prices have reached record levels and, on average, the oil intensity of GDP in Spain, Greece, and Portugal is 60% higher than the European average.
On the contrary, he argued that “where the concepts and traditions of popular government are too weak to absorb successfully the intensity of the communist attack,” the US must concede that “harsh governmental measures” to repress communist sentiment were the “only answer.”
With the traditional institutions of rule thoroughly discredited by the war, the vacuum of legitimacy would be filled by powerful demagogues and populist dictatorships: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”
The “passionate intensity” of the populists conveys a simple, easily grasped, and now resonant message: the elites are selfish, corrupt, and often criminal.
India, the world’s third-largest emitter, has pledged to reduce emissions intensity by 33-35% from 2005 levels, and generate 40% of its power from non-fossil-fuel sources, by 2030.
People could modulate their voice to reflect the intensity of their preferences, with a presiding officer carefully listening and then declaring the outcome.
Historically speaking, 15 years can seem long or short, depending on the intensity of change.
Neither the intensity of these arguments, nor mountains of sophisticated data, can relieve me of the feeling that this debate is stuck in a rut and stunted: stuck, because beyond the notion that growth is a necessary but insufficient condition for reducing poverty, our ideas on the matter have changed little over the years; stunted, because two vital things are often missing from these arguments.
Indeed, trade intensity may decline even for manufactured goods.
Rising productivity does not require relentlessly increasing trade intensity.
Optimal trade intensity depends on many factors – such as relative labor costs, transport costs, productivity levels, and economy-of-scale effects.
Trends in these factors might make reduced trade intensity not only inevitable but desirable.
But while the potential global benefits of trade liberalization have declined, reduced trade intensity might still impede economic development in some countries.
In the immortal lines of W.B. Yeats’s great poem, “The Second Coming”:“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
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