Word: globalization
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...public's faith in the capacity of the federal government's ability to find systemic problems in the financial sector and solve them will diminish quickly. Nothing could be worse than the perception that both the regulated and the regulators have lost their ways. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...make emissions more culturally acceptable? More importantly, does the cap-and-trade scheme raise more cultural awareness about the issue or less? It may be the case that, under a cap-and-trade scheme, emissions will become more stigmatized in light of the existence a common venture to defeat global warming, regardless of its reliance on cold market logic. There are arguments on both sides, and it ultimately depends on how cap and trade is sold to and bought by the people. If a cap-and-trade scheme is spun in the rhetoric of shared sacrifice, rather than merely increasing...
...although the most salient concern of the legislation in the U.S. is to quickly lower the aggregate amount of emissions with hurting the economy, this should not be the only concern. The moral and cultural dimensions of climate change must be also addressed. The only way up from the global fall from grace is to work together and consider what’s fair and important in the long...
These fictional conflicts, designed to be taking place from 2018 to 2025, are based on predictions of what global circumstances might be like at that time. "We actually take a look at the current operational environment then make grounded projections into the future," says U.S. Army Lt. Col. Paul Doyle. The game scenarios presume that by 2018, there will be overcrowding in the U.S., strained global water and energy supplies worldwide, and an increased willingness among U.S. allies to conduct peacekeeping missions - perhaps because they have no other choice. "We actually have more than one threat that we are dealing...
...Tata officials say they expect demand to be strong, even though India's once-booming real estate market has been deflated by a slowing economy and the global credit crunch. India has a shortage of 24.7 million dwellings in its major cities, according to a recent joint study by McKinsey and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce. Housing shortfalls are exacerbated by migrant workers streaming into many cities who are forced to live in slums made up of shanties lacking basic amenities like sanitation and running water. Roughly 70% of India's 1.2 billion people live on less than...