As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other leading scientists have made clear, society needs to take substantial action to prevent the worst consequences of climate change.
Faced with the prospect of economic and political turmoil in the event of further conflict, it avoided taking substantial action after it accused Pyongyang of sinking a South Korean ship in which forty-six sailors died in March, and over the years it has put up with the bombing of a civilian airliner, two assassination attempts on the president, and incursions by submarines.
The success of Paris was largely due to the fact that global awareness, and the level and quality of global consciousness about the existential threat we face from the climate crisis, has risen to a point where nations that were in the bubble could not go home without having taken substantial action – and we need to keep the pressure on.
David Butter explained that in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in Paris, politicians in Washington, Paris, and Moscow are desperate to look like they are taking substantial action against IS.
It notes that the Obama administration has taken substantial action to reduce emissions but it also emphasizes that future administrations will have to do their part, saying that "achieving deep decarbonization will require longer-term and increasingly ambitious policy action".
It also vowed to take "substantial military actions" to retaliate against joint United States-South Korean military drills, which involved American B-52 bomber sorties over South Korea.
The office declined to make the report public on Tuesday, saying it would give the Air Force 30 days to take "substantial" disciplinary action against the officials responsible for retaliating against the workers.
Moreover, in increasingly gridlocked political systems, policymakers may find it progressively harder to take substantial policy action to address sovereign and financial risks.
Calli Barker Schmidt, director of environmental communications for the National Association of Home Builders, says the home building industry may not be required to take substantial direct action to reduce ozone generation, but any construction moratoriums that may be imposed on counties that don't meet the standards could be costly for her clients.
Apart from the continual and countless acts of reasoning and mercy of women at the most intimate and local levels, their organisations in, for instance, Afghanistan and elsewhere take substantial and courageous actions to secure and sustain stability.
