Sentences with phrase «about future catastrophes»

And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes?

And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes?

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The somber yet hopeful film begins with a quote from Walter Benjamin about catastrophes blowing us into the future.

For example, we can decide that impinge of the right to the privacy in order to gain important information about terrorist attacks and stop possible future catastrophe and protect people, is justified.

We appreciate the time we spend with you but are concerned about the stark contrast between the sustainable and just future we are trying to build, and the climate catastrophe the coal industry would have us worsen.

The best that can be stated so far for the skeptical side is that the actual data - supported evidence for an anthropogenic climate catastrophe past, present, or future is weak, not that «CO2 has no effect» or «we're about to start catastrophically cooling».

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

Back in 1976, people were yammering on about the «global disaster facing humanity,» about «worldwide catastrophe» in our «near future,» about how we'd end up extinct if we didn't stop being so greedy and environmentally irresponsible.

«There has been over-claiming or exaggeration, or at the very least casual use of language by scientists, some of whom are quite prominent,» Professor Hulme told BBC News -LSB-...] «My argument is about the dangers of science over-claiming its knowledge about the future and in particular presenting tentative predictions about climate change using words of «disaster», «apocalypse» and «catastrophe»,» he said.

... The Environmentalist narrative of catastrophe, doom, and apocalypse, once given superficial scientific plausibility (in that science can not exclude the possibility of such things happening — which it never could), provides doubt and uncertainty about the security of the future, which in turn provides political momentum and legitimacy for environmental policies.

I would like to think that the time is coming when we can say with confidence that the true disaster scenarios are off the table and it's now all about finetuning our actions — choosing between a range of low - target, strong - mitigation futures in which we never go anywhere near catastrophe.

I've paid more attention to the extreme claims in the literature warning of coming catastrophe, both because I regard the scientists there as more serious, and because I am very sympathetic to the goals of my colleagues who sometimes seem, however, to be confusing their specific scientific knowledge with their worries about the future.

Then, just 10 days before the April 30 expiration of the credit, catastrophe struck the Gulf Coast, and real estate practitioners there headed into the summer with an out - of - control oil spill and lots of unknowns about their region's future.