"Large, undereducated swaths of the population damage the ability of the United States to physically defend itself, protect its secure information, conduct diplomacy, and grow its economy," it warned, while also referring to students as "human capital".
And as for the future costs — a population damaged by childhood malnutrition, an increased chance of terrorist attacks, a revenue system undermined by widespread tax evasion — well, tomorrow is another day.
Experience from SARS showed that such avoidance behaviors among large numbers in the population potentially damages the economy and disrupts daily lives.
Consequently, one of the key goals in cancer research over the past decade has been to develop therapeutic strategies to safely eliminate the CSC population without damaging the endogenous SSC population.
Scientists hope that the federally mandated Commission on Ocean Policy, whose conclusions will parallel those of last year's privately funded Pew Oceans Commission, will help the country reverse a long-running pattern of overharvested fish populations, damaged critical habitat, and degraded marine ecosystems.
In contrast, there is no predictable fixed term for a spontaneous abortion, so we cannot expect that the population of fetuses damaged during the third month of prenatal development (i.e., late April through early May 1986) (Peterka et al. 2004) would suddenly be aborted, thereby giving rise to a significant peak on the annual curve of abortions.
One approach to validating this prediction would be to wait for the next typhoon and document population damage thereafter.
But it illustrates that the things we do everyday, the human population pressure, damages the environment.
A persistent decline in the immigrant population could damage the overall Arizona economy, Ms. McLaren said.
Some of these are clear consequences of conflict and violence such as the desertion by health workers of conflict zones (where they are often at particular risk in excess of that of the general population), the damage to infrastructure and the loss of disease surveillance capabilities and records.
