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And according to that theory, it's already too late to avoid a disaster, because, if it's true that our best option at the moment is to prevent CO2 emissions with something like the Kyoto Protocol, with its constraints on economic activity and its enormous cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, or whatever it is, then that is already a disaster by any reasonable measure.
And it's true that an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure, but that's only if we know what to prevent.
How do you prevent either the media's interpretation of your work or the scientific community's interpretation of the implications of your work, kind of like the Mozart metaphor, where, "Oh, MRIs show that play enhances your intelligence.
How do you prevent people from taking that sort of action on the data that you're developing?
Less than 50 percent of the states in the United States require that sex education be taught in schools, including how to prevent coerced sex.
Mangroves also prevent soil erosion, and they can be the first line of defense between storm surges, tsunamis and the millions of people who live next to these forests for their day-to-day survival.
Every bit of habitat we preserve, every tenth of a degree of warming we prevent, really does matter.
Even policy designed to help prevent recessions can contribute.
But these policies are not sustainable and eventually need to be reversed to prevent excessive inflation.
French attempts to reinstate slavery met fierce resistance, with General Christophe even burning the capital city to prevent military occupation.
They struggle to access nutritious food that they need, that they need to stay healthy, that they need to prevent premature illness and diet-related diseases.
We still don't know the full story, but we know how to prevent future tragedies.
The community thought so too, opting to close a small area of reef to octopus fishing temporarily, using a customary social code, invoking blessings from the ancestors to prevent poaching.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control says that if we could eliminate smoking, physical inactivity and poor nutrition, that we can prevent 80 percent of heart disease, 80 percent of type 2 diabetes and 40 percent of cancer.
They also work with a health coach to learn self-management skills, skills that'll help them prevent complications of their illness.
Even the most common type, osteoarthritis, is trickier to prevent than one might think.
Both prevent blood clots from forming— blood thinners by preventing the formation of the clotting factors that hold clots together, and aspirin by preventing blood cells from clumping into groups that become clots.
Individually, these effects are usually safe, but taken together, they can prevent blood clotting to a dangerous extent, possibly causing internal bleeding.
They identified complex diseases early enough to be able to prevent and cure them.
You would need the ability, reliably, to prevent the worst kinds of global coordination failures, to avoid wars between great powers, arms races, cataclysmic commons problems, in order to deal with the Type-2a vulnerabilities.
When he walks outside his souk, walks into a pharmacy for heart medicine that can prevent the blood in his arteries from clotting, he confronts the fact that, despite a growing epidemic that currently accounts for 82 percent of all deaths in Egypt, it is the medicines that can address these conditions that counterfeiters, ever the evil geniuses they are, have decided to target.
To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be conducted in absolute secret except for a group of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.
But smoke alarms don't prevent fires.
What if we could prevent electrical fires before they start?
So, to conclude, intelligent power can, globally, save thousands of lives, prevent tens of thousands of injuries, and eliminate tens of billions of dollars in property damage every single year, while significantly reducing global energy consumption.
And if we had a computer that could detect it, we could tell you you're having a heart attack so early it could save your life and prevent congestive heart failure.
We stopped tilling, so that we could prevent greenhouse gasses from going into the air.
You can't cure or prevent what you don't know is there.
In nearby Africa, poachers intentionally poison carcasses to prevent the birds’ presence from alerting authorities to their location.
It's clearly understood that airports or any land borders cannot prevent a disease from entering.
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