Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic scenario»

Even short of the more apocalyptic scenarios one can dream up, paper books still serve a purpose and will for the foreseeable future.

What apocalyptic scenarios are you talking about that should have come true to date?

Creative authors throughout the centuries have imagined lots of spectacular apocalyptic scenarios.

But recent films all present apocalyptic scenarios, set in times that are increasingly near.

I assumed we're discussing a looming apocalyptic scenario given our inability to reduce emissions and that we're seeing the effects of emissions from decades ago catching up with us now.

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

Following on last week's World Ocean Summit in Mexico, the Wall Street Journal published a piece Monday ridiculing apocalyptic scenarios of an overheated future with disastrous impact on the human population as the product of «laughably bad economics.»

Of course, I don't advise this strategy because it is predicated on apocalyptic scenarios that are unlikely.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios, climate change became — in the minds of the public — a political excuse for social engineering and taxation.

Drawdown focuses on small, practical steps, not apocalyptic scenarios and impossible solutions.

A new analysis of various apocalyptic scenarios suggests that we may be able to detect distant worlds where life has been wiped out by nuclear war or nanotechnology run amok.

Perhaps the most insidious by - product of modern apocalyptic scenarios is that grief is shoved right off the table.

For some time now many scientists, even and perhaps especially those connected to the climate alarmism movement, have worried about the exaggerations and downright apocalyptic scenarios which have come out of the writings of some of their scientific colleagues like James Hansen or James Lovelock,....

With a new cast of characters and an expansion of the potentially apocalyptic scenario, 28 Weeks Later is harrowing when it needs to be, and delivers quite well during some of the scarier parts.

For the last century, filmmakers have explored countless apocalyptic scenarios on screen, with everything from natural disasters (2012) to planetary collisions (Melancholia), and technological advancement (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) to nuclear warfare (The Sum of All Fears) seen as catalysts for the destruction of humanity.

The film generally keeps clear of the usual apocalyptic scenarios (looting, violent power struggles), favoring a more personal approach: showing people just desperately trying to adapt and maintain daily order amid escalating chaos.

In recent times apocalyptic scenarios have proved to be fertile ground for many science - fiction writers who create worlds that do not necessarily have religious overtones.

But it trades at 0.94 times book value and seven times earnings, which indicates that it could do quite well in less apocalyptic scenarios.

Four characters, each fulfilling their own niche, slaughter their way through apocalyptic scenarios.

Beyond apocalyptic scenarios or utopian visions, the artists included propose a reassessment of our current condition and look towards the future - present from an empowering stance that challenges boundaries.

This year's line - up includes a creepily disorientating fake apartment from Gregor Schneider; a decaying former skating rink that Pierre Huyghe has transformed into an epic apocalyptic scenario inhabited by swarms of bees, mutating cancer cells and chimera peacocks; and Nicole Eisenman's wonderfully dysfunctional fountain, with its lumpen, slouching figures dribbling water from clutched beer cans and various bodyparts.

During her time at SOHO20, she will invite visitors to participate in a military training exercise that outlines a hypothetical apocalyptic scenario in which ten people of diverse backgrounds occupy a fallout shelter.

While I reject most apocalyptic scenarios as unfounded or unduly speculative, I am convinced that the human contribution to climate change will cause or exacerbate significant problems in at least some parts of the world.

Where do such numbers — and associated apocalyptic scenarios — come from, what do they mean, and is ambitious action a recipe for a significant hit to the economy and our living standards?

John Michael Greer, one of their premier writers, has consistently and vigorously denounced apocalyptic scenarios.

As the IPCC emphasizes, climate change is a problem; but the report contains none of the media's typical apocalyptic scenarios, no alarmism, and no demands from natural scientists to cut emissions by X-percent or to lavish subsidies on solar panels.

Apocalyptic scenarios attributed to global warming are simply false and the human race will be able to accommodate whatever «climate change» throws at us, claims a remarkably sober new essay in Scientific American.

To be fair, he did lean towards the more apocalyptic scenarios favoured by the more extreme proponents of the green agenda, but he did have a point.

In recent years, the political environmental movement has been successful in presenting the precautionary principle as a «scientific» response to uncertainty, while greatly exaggerating the scientific plausibility of imaginary apocalyptic scenarios to elicit a response in their favor from a terrified public.

People have grown weary of the never ending apocalyptic scenarios that the real world reality constantly slaps down.

An Alarmist position may include apocalyptic scenarios, threats to our children and future progeny, dismisses any evidence as anti-science that contradicts the alarmist position..

All the while, gleeful that their scientists were giving them ammunition to concoct apocalyptic scenarios to scare the public into paying ever higher taxes, the politicians went along with the scam.

I asked, «What apocalyptic scenarios are you talking about that should have come true to date?

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios,»

A false climate certainly stimulates inchoate fears and ever more apocalyptic scenarios which in turn support social engineering ambitions up to and including the overthrow of capitalism and democracy.

I was both fascinated and fearful of various apocalyptic scenarios.

Hirshberg can rattle on all he likes about taking chances but this is clearly an Infinity Ward CoD title, from the linear design (Volker tells me some stages will be more open, but this is still an A-to-B blaster at heart) to the emphasis on apocalyptic scenarios and near - futuristic hardware.

We are nowhere near the apocalyptic scenario in which smart evil robots turn on humans, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

No one can really know how any of us would face an apocalyptic scenario, but it's safe to say that the average person, let alone a minister, would simply open the door to save longtime friends and fellow Christians from being eaten alive.

24; Luke 21), the prediction of the destruction of the temple flows easily into an apocalyptic scenario.

For many Christians today, apocalyptic scenarios are coming closer and closer, and kindling a fire of anticipation as they do.

The letter responds by invoking an apocalyptic scenario of what must still happen before the end.

When Indonesia's Mount Toba blew its top some 74,000 years ago, an apocalyptic scenario ensued: Tons of ash and debris entered the atmosphere, coating the planet in ash for 2 weeks straight and sending global temperatures plummeting.

Some climate models have raised the specter of a sudden shutdown of the AMOC — the apocalyptic scenario, leading to a frozen Europe, depicted in the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow — and the possibility is also supported by evidence from the geological past.

They painted an apocalyptic scenario of blood calcium getting elevated, free radical production accelerating, and calcium being pushed up further to create a «feedforward, self - amplified loop».

It's in this greyed - out, apocalyptic scenario that Bryan Singer's film lays out its basic plot line: with their backs against the wall in the present tense, the X-Men (or what's left of them following a series of Sentinel raids) opt to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)-- or at least his consciousness — back in time 50 years so that his younger self can try to alter this chronology — a scheme that nods to H.G. Wells and Harlan Ellison (as well as the X-Men comics series).

Turns out, two percent is still enough to create an apocalyptic scenario for Earth.