vicious cycle

The temperature increases could spiral out into a "vicious cycle," as WMO Deputy Secretary-General Ko Barrett put it in the same statement.

In particular, our recent economic history is, like that of many other Western democracies, a tale of shocks and stagnation: a "vicious cycle of increased costs, increased taxes, and poor outcomes".

Black girls who enter the sport can face unique obstacles, a result of a vicious cycle.

And it increasingly causes people to migrate as they flee areas ravaged by rising seas and devastating storms, which, in turn, can fuel conflict that then drives more migration in a vicious cycle.

"Measures reducing social stress, including economic policies such as universal base income, may be the most effective ways to counteract this vicious cycle," the authors wrote.