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Elsewhere in the region, water stress from reduced rainfall, salinity, glacial retreat, and desertification will hit water stocks, threaten livelihoods, and drive up food and water prices.
Floods and droughts would become more intense and global sea levels would be several meters higher, severely disrupting lives and livelihoods, and causing massive population movements and inevitable conflict around the world.
But saving endangered and near-endangered species is not just about conservation; it is also about defending millions of people’s livelihoods, which depend on healthy oceans.
But so, too, could be the organizations that have presided over a breathtaking collapse of so many fisheries and left a once-bountiful marine environment – and the lives and
livelihoods
of many fishermen – damaged and degraded in their wake.
The problem is that the absence of reliable data can make the need to protect a species seem more abstract and less urgent, weakening governments’ capacity to resist other, more immediate demands, especially the need to protect relevant
livelihoods.
Only with a concerted, cooperative, and urgent effort to preserve marine ecosystems and protect the
livelihoods
of those who depend on them will the oceans be able to continue to feed – and fascinate – the world for generations to come.
Homes and
livelihoods
have been destroyed.
They see the damage extreme weather events can inflict on homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods, and they hear climate scientists’ warnings that conditions will only deteriorate.
This type of regulatory language reaffirms what at-risk populations around the world already know: droughts, natural disasters, desertification, crop failure, and many other environmental changes are upending
livelihoods
and rendering entire communities uninhabitable.
Governments now have a clearer perspective on how to empower the lives and
livelihoods
of the world’s seven billion people (9-10 billion by 2050), while keeping humanity’s footprint, including climate change, within the planet’s boundaries of environmental sustainability.
Now, by seizing control over water – a resource vital to millions of lives and
livelihoods
– China can hold another country hostage without firing a single shot.
In agriculture-dependent countries like Ethiopia, longer droughts and more frequent flooding are threatening
livelihoods
and food supplies.
As climate change exacerbates the effects of storms, flooding, and erosion, the lives and
livelihoods
of hundreds of millions of those people will be at risk.
Nature can also help to protect
livelihoods.
Economic differences between the industrial north and the agricultural south meant that discussions over states’ rights were about
livelihoods
as well as lives.
Accelerating harvests would mean higher, more reliable production with less labor – a formula for stronger, more stable
livelihoods.
Consider livestock production, which accounts for many foods – including milk, eggs, and meat – that have enriched diets in developing countries and provide
livelihoods
for millions.
After all, a shift toward sustainability cannot come at the expense of farmers’
livelihoods.
They tear societies apart, destroy the
livelihoods
of millions, and cause even greater conflicts, as we have seen in Iraq.
We identified six universal goals for sustainable development: lives and livelihoods, food security, water sustainability, clean energy, healthy ecosystems, and good governance.
People who watch the butchering of their children and parents, the rape of their wives, daughters, and sisters, and the wanton destruction of their homes and
livelihoods
do not forget.
In the near term, the global crisis is likely to become worse as many governments, especially in advanced economies, prioritize fiscal austerity and tough labor-market reforms, even as such measures undermine livelihoods, incomes, and the social fabric.
If populist fear-mongering drives their countries to embrace exclusionary, protectionist policies, the effect on the global economy – and the
livelihoods
of millions of people around the world – would be disastrous.
We could also accelerate economic recovery, increase the pace of innovation, and raise
livelihoods
for millions of people worldwide.
Most likely, they will end up getting off too easy, especially compared to the real victims of this historic tragedy – the most vulnerable segments of the Greek population, who will become much worse off, today and for many years to come, as jobs disappear, savings evaporate, and
livelihoods
are destroyed.
We need to recognize what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the “fierce urgency of now” if we are to safeguard millions of people’s
livelihoods
and hopes for the future.
At the same time, there is an emerging consensus – among grassroots organizations and central bankers alike – that inequality poses a serious threat to people’s
livelihoods
and prosperity worldwide.
Kim did a fantastic job, and his efforts provided the groundwork for bringing ARVs to millions, saving lives, livelihoods, and families.
Simply put, for many Europeans, immigrants represent less a threat to their
livelihoods
than a challenge to their national and tribal identities.
Similarly, villages have reportedly been denied access to their sole supply of portable water, while the pipeline has seriously threatened the
livelihoods
of Kribi’s fishermen.
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