The combined miseries of coastal flooding, desertification, species loss, agricultural dislocation and disease migration are almost too much to imagine.
The spread across classes of economic rights to protection from the miseries brought about by uncontrolled markets you call a "backlash" against economic downturn.
These are miseries which would bear cruelly on every working man, and every trade union leader worthy of his membership really does now need to stand up and be counted.
Apart from adding to the poor countries' miseries, these demographic strains also lead to environmental harms (such as deforestation and reductions in biodiversity) which threaten everyone.Rethinking aidMuch of the world, perhaps 2 billion people or more, will fail to share in the benefits of global growth without a complete change in international strategy.
In the long run, Mr Hussein no doubt hopes that American heavy-handedness will create general sympathy for Iraq.In the meantime, on top of the ordinary miseries long faced by Iraqis, there is the risk that American missiles will go astray, as they did near Basra on January 25th, killing 17 civilians.
THROUGHOUT the millennia, students of all ages in China have had to endure the miseries of learning by rote.
His poverty-stricken region suffers regular power cuts and other miseries.
Initially lauded as welcome refugees from the miseries of capitalism (and as useful specialists who might help replicate the bits of it that worked, such as factories) from 1935 onwards they became enemies of the people, infiltrators and spies.
He reckons that the introduction of general limited liability in Britain in 1856 was hastened by the experience of limited liability for authorised railway schemes during the boom.So what about the rich world's present miseries?
Yet as the west coast's miseries continue, the mood 3,000 miles to the east is quietly improving.
Mr Icahn has spoken to fellow shareholders, says Jessica Reif Cohen, the media analyst at Merrill Lynch, and his letter this week is in effect "a collection of their individual miseries".
