No one thinks dealing with climate change is easy – even those who deny climate change exists argue against the massive cost involved in combating it.
"The Soviet challenge imposed a discipline on defence-spending choices which no longer exists," argues Harvey Sapolsky, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.As the Pentagon's pot of gold is fought over by local interests, industrial lobbies and advocates of new technology, there is little political energy left for much else.
The potential for regret about the options not taken the faster car, the hotel with the better view—seems to be greater in the face of multiple choices.Expectations have been inflated to such an extent that people think the perfect choice exists, argues Renata Salecl in her book "Choice".
Targeted by constitutional lawsuits, the city's lawyers have claimed, to the incredulity of civil liberties attorneys, that the Muslim surveillance program does not exist, arguing that the police only does surveillance when following leads.
The film's critics, none of whom dispute that these social problems exist, argue that Nascimento's unrepentant voiceover advocates an appalling, dangerously appealing solution.
The bishop, who claims that the ship has "always existed," argues that its purpose is "to spread the word of God" to the far reaches of the universe -- even to intelligent aliens, should any be discovered.
Such individuals don't exist, argues Mr. Ormerod, who has been head of the economic assessment unit at The Economist and a visiting professor at the Universities of London and Manchester and whose first book was "The Death of Economics".
The problems that existed in the inner city at the time of Shakur's emergence still exist, argues Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur," and this makes Shakur's words as relevant today as they were more than a decade ago.
