The benefits of some environmentally friendly policies will not be apparent until decades after they have been enacted. (46) That is one of the messages of a report from the United Nations Environment Programme, which, even by the standards of global environment assessments, is sobering reading.
(47) Global Environmental Outlook 3 (GE03), a study of the links between environmental, social and development issues, contains a range of dreadful but familiar predictions about the impact of factors such as climate change and industrial development. But the report, released last week in the run-up to August’s World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, was unusually pessimistic about the prospects for reversing the damage.
The new predictions are contained in one of four possible futures outlined in the report. The authors considered situations in which global politics were dominated by concerns over markets, environmental and social poli
When Daniel Franklin, a political
science professor from Atlanta, needed career advancement advice, he didn’t turn
to colleagues, therapists or even his mom. He went to the Advice Ladies. Three thirty something New York women, advertising freelancers by day, have turned themselves into Saturday afternoon street-comer oracles, they pull up lawn chairs and a table on a lower Manhattan street corner and dish out free advice to passersby. They’ve claimed the comer of West Broadway and Broome Street in Soho as their own for the last several months. Amy Alkon, who, with longtime friends Marlowe Minnick and Carolyn Johnson, becomes a part-time shrink each weekend. "We use creative problem- solving to turn problem into fun," she says. On a recent steamy afternoon, a line has formed in front of the Advice Ladies’ table. Obv A. about 30 New York women who offered free advice by day B. three women freelancers about 30 years old who offered advertising advice on Saturday C. about 30 women advertising freelancers offered advice every Saturday afternoon in New York D. three women about 30 years old, who did advertising as a job, offered free advice every Saturday afternoon [单项选择]Are the following two statements about fiscal policy correct Statement 1: The crowding out effect reduces the multiplier effect of expansionary fiscal policy but does not affect economic growth. Statement 2: A generational imbalance exists if the present value of government benefits to the current generation is not fully paid for by taxes on the current generation. Statement 1 Statement 2()①A. Correct Correct ②B. Correct Incorrect ③C. Incorrect Correct
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