During an interview on All In With Chris Hayes on Monday, the renowned astrophysicist said the evidence is mounting that climate change will have extreme economic ramifications.
A mix of perfectly-realized media parody, meta-humor, small ideas taken to extremes (the ramifications of the phrase "nothing to write home about," for example) and random weirdness, each episode -- the two I've seen, anyway -- knits itself into something resembling a whole, in the manner of "Monty Python's Flying Circus," as if that all happened now, and in Southern California.
If these millennials aren't tough enough to finish, much less excel in, school--and thus help sustain American competitiveness--the ramifications are extreme.
First, this has been a financial crisis of extreme severity, with global economic ramifications.
"I've been living the ramifications of the extreme high cost of this city way before the buses got here, and it will continue to happen until we get the affordable housing we need".
After a year in which droughts caused a vegetable shortage in shops, scorching temperatures fuelled major moorland fires, hospitals treated record numbers of patients during the heatwave and floods caused unprecedented havoc, the ramifications of rising extreme weather are becoming ever too apparent.
In situations where pain was perceived as extreme or unfamiliar, adolescents recognized the ramifications of further damage, e.g. "I know if I play (with a sprained finger), I'll hurt myself or whatever or make it worse".
"To fully grasp the ramifications of the surge in extreme droughts and floods that is forecast in this report, one need only look at the widespread devastation across the Midwest," said Richard H. Moss, head of the climate program of the World Wildlife Fund.
Perkins's position is extreme, but he's being straightforward about what the ramifications of a personhood law could be for American jurisprudence and family planning.
