If economic incentives facing producers and consumers do not change with higher incomes, pollution will continue to grow unabated with the growing scale of economic activity.
Thailand said this week that manufacturing production had fallen 21% in March compared with a year earlier, suggesting that the scale of economic contraction already exceeds most of the gloomiest forecasts.
Partly to compensate for the scale of economic upheaval in Wales, Thatcher's government enacted a number of changes that did much - indeed more than any previous administration - to buttress the fortunes and status of the Welsh language.
Ministers, business leaders and economists have been forced to own up to error by the sheer scale of the economic crash and the undeniable inexcusability of certain expense claims.
MPC's reluctance to bring down rates again is that it is sceptical about the scale of the economic slowdown revealed in the national accounts.
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"The sheer scale of the economic activity in China means that pollution is as probably bad as it has ever been anywhere in the world, ever, " Lester Brown, head of Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, told CNN.
"To the Irish people I say simply this: We should not underestimate the scale of our economic problems, but we must have faith in our ability as a people to recover and prosper once more, " he said.
The scale of the global economic crisis has also forced Mr Obama to adopt a quasi-presidential stance.
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The rise in inequality is due partly to the concentration of immigrants at both ends of the economic scale, but the LSE study suggests that the arrival of lots of poor people has also depressed wages.
Traditionally, Chinese officials do not respond well to public admonition and, given the scale of China's economic woes, they are likely to be pricklier now.
But the benefits derived from scale and magnitude of our economic partnership with Mexico still one of the best performing and fastest growing economies in the G20 and OECD literally dwarf those challenges.
"When the initial excitement has died down, there will be some politicians and business people who will wonder whether when China buys abroad on this scale, the balance of economic power may be shifting eastward in a way that should concern us, " he said.
The Autumn Statement, he said, showed "the true scale of this government's economic failure".
At the other end of the economic scale, migrants come from impoverished Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Instead, the events that followed suggested that the Thai government was, even now, unwilling or unable to recognise the scale of the country's economic difficulties.
There's been some criticism that, you know, the income tax rebates won't do much to help those at the very lowest end of the economic scale because they don't pay much in income taxes.
While housing must slow down, I continue to believe that favorable demographic trends, shortages of desirable land, historically low interest rates, relatively healthy economic data, economies of scale and market share opportunities argue for much higher housing-share prices.
Moreover, large-scale redundancies as a result of the economic crisis have barely started.
Elsewhere, such as in Europe's periphery, the scale of budget tightening will cause such economic damage that the countries' debt outlook will darken rather than brighten.
Park's policy calls for strong defense but also for efforts to build trust through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue.
Like Lee, Park is a member of South Korea's main conservative party, but she has promised to find a middle ground by re-engaging Pyongyang through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue.
Economic conditions and the scale of such projects mean that only the very brave will invest now, he says.
As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.
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On any scale Aramex has done well out of the global economic crisis.
Both Republicans and Democrats have admitted that any economic stimulus plan of this scale will mean a return to deficit spending.
Debt reduction is very difficult without economic growth, and the scale of Europe's austerity makes it hard to see where that growth will come from.
Take the corporate scandals: neither livedoor nor the Murakami Fund represents chicanery or economic distortion on anything approaching the scale of America's Enron or WorldCom earlier this decade, they are far smaller entities.
As far back as 1984, IEA member countries understood that a disruption of a much smaller scale than 7% could cause significant economic damage, and thus they adopted more flexible response measures.
Last month, the U.S. counterintelligence chief issued a blunt critique of China's theft of American corporate intellectual property and economic data, calling China "the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage" and warning that large-scale industrial espionage threatens U.S. competitiveness and national security.
The respondents give Mr Bush a dismal average of 1.7 on our five-point scale for his economic management.
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