How to maintain a stable middle class amid sweeping technological change is a problem the developed world is only beginning to appreciate.
He also said that despite the U.S. Congress generally in disagreement on climate change, with politicians out of lock step with most Americans who believe climate change is a problem, Brazil believes that the U.S. will deliver on climate change.
As to the major point that Krugman is making, that there does seem to be a blanket refusal to believe, on one side of the political aisle, that climate change is a problem we should do something about, well, yes, it seems that there is.
Assume that climate change is a problem, one that we need to do something about.
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Britons do seem to regard climate change as a problem, but there is little appetite for big lifestyle changes.
"Climate change is not a problem that Europe can afford to put into the 'too difficult' pile, " she said.
Climate change is indeed a problem and one that I at least am certain is something we ought to do something about.
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With respect to carbon emissions, I share the view of your Prime Minister and most scientists in the world that climate change is a real problem and that human activity is contributing to it, and that we all have a responsibility to find ways to reduce our carbon emissions.
The key change was the addition of copper strips to the metamaterial that shields an object from incoming light to create a better material, couple with a slight change in its orientation to solve a problem caused by dividing the metamaterial of the cloaking device into quadrants.
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Disruptive innovation requires three things: a change in technology that simplifies a complicated technical problem, a business model that can take those simplified solutions to the market at low cost and a supporting cast of suppliers and distributors to reinforce the disruptor in the middle.
This makes climate change itself a much cheaper problem to deal with.
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Contrary to what you might be hearing from the more excitable ends of the press it seems that climate change is less of a problem than we thought it was.
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Mark Rosekind, a National Transportation Safety Board member who formerly directed a sleep research center at Stanford University, says it's a pervasive problem that requires a culture change to fix.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe that global climate change and warming is a legitimate problem.
Who figures out how to change it if it is a problem, or maintain it if it is an asset?
Blurred vision, for example, may suggest you need a prescription change, or it could be a sign of another problem.
And furthermore, if anyone willing to solve a social problem and change-making ideas were to receive the same type of support and boost.
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Yet one diplomat says he has never witnessed such a change in mood in so short a time, to the extent that one problem now is managing expectations.
In the private sector, thanks to a change in accounting rules, the problem was swiftly recognised.
This is important because of the second change: credit risk is more of a problem than it was.
Without a change in those basic economic policies the debt problem is just going to come back again.
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But now unemployment is such a serious problem that attitudes are starting to change.
Still the odds are stacked against him, which in turn represents a broader problem facing those who seek dramatic change in India.
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When there is no crisis, or when there is little or no paradigm change, the Japanese decision-making process is not a problem.
This presents a big problem for anyone campaigning for constitutional change, particularly something like Lords reform in which there is perceived to be little public interest, she adds.
But while we dither over not just how to find a solution but whether we have a problem, the costs of dealing with climate change are rising along with atmospheric temperatures.
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The league's board of governors thought it had the problem settled when a realignment plan that would change the current system from six divisions to four conferences was formed in December 2011.
If you have a problem you can throw money at it, or change how things are done.
As with any systematic program designed to change behavior, the first step for the NCAA was admitting they had a problem.
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