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Science must point the way to more informed and integrated policy-making, including on climate change, biodiversity, ocean and coastal management, water and food scarcities, and planetary “boundaries” (the scientific thresholds that define a “safe operating space” for humanity).
If coral bleaching thresholds remain steady, local summer temperatures will exceed those thresholds regularly within a few decades.
Fortunately, there is evidence that bleaching thresholds evolve.
Possible thresholds include the poverty line, a percentage of pre-retirement income, or a certain standard of living.
Without a real and lasting solution that recalibrates our current economic thinking at a systemic level, the scale and pace of change could soon push the planet past critical thresholds and make sustainable development everywhere an impossible dream.
For some, the problem is a savings glut associated with slower demographic growth, rising life expectancy, and static retirement thresholds – a combination that forces people to save more for their old age.
We would have to set the thresholds for psychiatric diagnosis a lot higher, resurrecting the distinction between chronic illness and mild suffering.
Success is essential if China is to avoid the dreaded “middle-income trap” – the economic slowdown that most fast-growing developing economies experience when they reach income thresholds comparable to that of China today.
Yet there is a sense that progress and understanding will require something new – an economics of virtuous circles, thresholds, and butterfly effects, in which small changes have very large effects.
This currently only happens if a company meets complex turnover thresholds.
These are reasonable principles, but what are the thresholds?
Many upstarts in the sector have carved out a competitive advantage by avoiding thresholds beyond which they would face substantial regulatory scrutiny and requirements.
Working to raise the thresholds that terrorists must overcome requires a systemic approach, since plugging one hole can simply divert terrorists to others.
While non-organic fruits and vegetables had more pesticide residue, the levels in more than 99% of cases did not cross the conservative safety thresholds set by regulators.
But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan-to-deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.
But there are limits, or thresholds, to a system’s resilience, beyond which it assumes a different way of functioning – a different identity.
Two main thresholds dictate this change in coral reefs.
These two thresholds interact: the more nutrients there are, the less fishing is needed to “flip” the system into the algal state; and the fewer fish there are, the less nutrients are needed.
Moreover, thresholds can move as the environment changes.
In the coral reef example, both the nutrient and fish thresholds fall as sea temperatures rise and the oceans become more acidic.
Thresholds also occur in social systems: think of fads or, more seriously, riot behavior in crowds.
Payments would be resumed upon reducing unemployment levels below agreed thresholds.
Finally, the European Commission should temporarily abandon deficit-spending targets in countries that have fallen into recession, or where unemployment has risen above established thresholds.
When the downside risks associated with such limits and thresholds are brought into estimates of sustainable development, the growth in wealth among the world’s wealthy nations will probably turn out to have been less than we now think.
According to most analysts, the novelty in the announcement was the Fed’s willingness to be explicit about its quantitative policy thresholds and, therefore, about the future course of its monetary policy.
The Fed is taking very different approaches to the specification of the two quantitative thresholds: unemployment will be based on historical data, while inflation will be based on the Fed’s own projections.
First, the most at-risk societies and systems are already close to physical and biological thresholds.
Moreover, increasing climate hazards may make such systems vulnerable when they reach such thresholds, often resulting in non-linear intensification of effects.
They can have stricter thresholds, quarantining people even for shorter exposures than 15 minutes, and requiring either multiple negative test results or longer quarantines after more dangerous exposures.
The difference, of course, is that, unlike health care, the planet’s thresholds cannot be changed.
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