Quite possibly a much more severe problem than anyone suspected.
It could be that humanity will finally start tackling climate change as it gradually becomes a much more severe problem, and hence we never reach the truly catastrophic scenarios.
For many conservationists, the near-extinction of numerous whale populations in the seventies, and their continued threatened status today, is emblematic of a much more severe problem: the wholesale harvesting, whether for human consumption or for industry, of too many living things from the sea.
This summer, Apple's sales of its current iPhone 4S softened because consumers were waiting for the iPhone 5 The extended delay of the BlackBerry 10, however, has created a much more severe problem for RIM, perhaps because its executives have repeatedly boasted that the new phones and their completely redeveloped operating system will be major advance on RIM's current products.
In 1971 the United States dealt with a similar but much less severe problem of foreign undervaluation by imposing a temporary 10 percent surcharge on imports, which was removed a few months later after Germany, Japan and other nations raised the dollar value of their currencies.
If you can't walk or move your arms or legs, this indicates a much more severe problem.
Our training consisted in learning the oh-so-subtle signs of pseudo 'pseudoneurotic schizophrenia' so that we might misdiagnose teenagers and young adults who really had much less severe problems.
Persons who agreed that the price of gasoline, rough pavement, or highway congestion were "very much" or "severe" problems for them were categorized as having traffic problems; others were coded as not having such problems.
About a quarter of trips for medical/dental care involved travelers who agreed that the price of gasoline, rough pavement, or highway congestion were "very much" or "severe" problems for them (Table 2).
Due to the rapid growth of wireless communications, the problem of spectrum shortage has become much severer.
