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Even worse, it is highly probable that Americans advocating for a reduced US role in the world would seize on Brexit as further evidence that traditional allies were not doing their fair share, and that a US facing growing deficits and massive domestic needs should not be expected to make up the difference.
If this isn’t daunting enough, consider this: if we delay taking action by even a few years, we probably won’t hit the required targets, even with a temporary decline in carbon emissions associated with reduced economic activity in the near term.
But the lion’s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.
Without carefully managing tropical forests – 90% of which grow in developing nations that have pressure to clear the land for other economic purposes – we cannot meet our global targets for reduced carbon emissions.
When Intermountain Healthcare, a network of hospitals in Utah and Idaho, improved its treatment for premature babies, it reduced the time they spent in intensive care, thereby slashing the costs of treating them.
Likewise, more than a quarter of all medicinal drugs, representing billions of dollars in sales and reduced healthcare costs, possess active ingredients derived from wild species.
Advances in prevention and treatment have reduced annual HIV infections by one-third over the past decade, and cut AIDS-related deaths by 30% over the past five years.
For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern region by 85%.
The consequence would be reduced growth, owing to a misallocation of scarce capital, and economic stagnation in the core areas.
The only visible counterweights are civil society’s democratic organizations and an independent press, whose freedoms have been drastically reduced, and a new political opposition that has yet to establish its credentials through a strategy of resistance.
With the EU's internal borders reduced to purely administrative boundaries, this task has passed to institutions that wield immense preemptive authority over member states.
First, US agricultural protectionism should be reduced.
Though the systematic screening and treatment of millions of people dramatically reduced disease transmission in the 1930’s, the relaxation of such efforts allowed HAT to reemerge in the 1950’s and 1960’s, reaching epidemic levels by early 1990’s.
These measures have proved effective: Ukraine reduced gas consumption by over 20% last year and is continuing to save even more on energy.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is buying foreign currency to maintain exchange-rate stability, and it has reduced inflation to just 8% (as of August) by gradually cutting interest rates and easing currency regulations.
With reduced profits, they will be less likely to expand and hire more workers; and if they lose money, they may have to shed workers.
Those who prefer to remain in the UK cite a loss of markets, possible loss of the pound sterling, and reduced significance on the European and world stage.
Equally important, professional training development in the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe can bring about improved international relations and trade, together with reduced migration pressure.
The compact sets a strict ceiling for a country’s structural budget deficit and stipulates that public-debt ratios in excess of 60% of GDP must be reduced yearly by one-twentieth of the difference between the current ratio and the target.
Of course, the Triffin dilemma can be avoided, and America’s outsize influence over the monetary system reduced.
But, from 2015 to 2017, foreign direct investment in Russia amounted to less than 2% of GDP per year, on average – almost half what it had been in the preceding years – reflecting not just falling investment, but also reduced technology imports.
Russia has a substantial foreign debt service, but the recent London Club deal reduced Soviet-era debt to commercial banks by half, easing the pressure mightily.
The rebels, who reduced Qaddafi’s birthplace to rubble, were in some cases as ruthlessly brutal as the men against whom they were fighting.
The Western world will represent only 12% of the world’s population, with Europeans reduced to 6%.
The prices of basic commodities and charges for electricity, heating, and other vital services will be reduced to their actual production costs.
Moreover, the land and infrastructure needed for parking would be significantly reduced.
Until now, European integration worked best when it reduced the role of public (usually national) intervention, thus opening up national markets.
The good news is that no one except Trump wants a trade war – so these tariffs could easily and quickly be reduced.
Implementing just seven proven policies – renewable energy standards (e.g., feed-in tariffs or renewable portfolio standards); industry efficiency measures; building codes; vehicle efficiency standards; fuel carbon content standards; appliance standards, and policies for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) – can deliver these reductions.
The past two months’ run-up to the austerity bomb’s detonation has already reduced projected real GDP growth in 2013 from 3% to 2.5%, and has raised likely end-2013 unemployment from 7.5% to 7.7%.
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