Thompson said: "There is little time left to prevent the worst excesses of climate change, yet our world leaders continue to stall.
They are the rarely discussed part of the so-called fiscal cliff, and negotiators have little time left to prevent their impact.
I pray its gamble pays off, for if it does not there will be only one tool left to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Since Germany has effectively ruled out a fiscal expansion to revive the euro zone, quantitative easing leading to devaluation is about the only option left to prevent a calamity.
On Saturday, there will be exactly a year left to prevent the return of a conflict that was once the longest-running in Africa Sudanan's north-south war, which claimed about 2 million lives.
With Republican-controlled Indiana on the verge of becoming a "right to work" state, Democrats in the State House on Tuesday took the only step they have left to prevent it, if only for a bit longer.
Rick Perry, the frontrunner to become the Republican candidate in next year's presidential election, has just hours left to prevent a man being put to death in Texas in a case in which the jury was told the prisoner was a danger to the public – and should therefore be executed – because he was black.
In an effort to bolster the economy, the Federal Reserve cut rates 11 times in 2001, bringing them to their lowest level in four decades, but many parts of the economy remain in the doldrums, prompting criticism from some that the Federal Reserve has little room left to prevent deflation.
"You have to look at the larger picture of the whole year, and now we are looking at a good vegetable crop after rice," said Mr. McKenzie, whose rice fields and vegetable garden are mulched with straw and leaves to prevent extensive evaporation of moisture from the soil and to allow soil rejuvenation from decomposition of the organic matter.
