Sentences with phrase «catastrophic end of the age»

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When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

The most difficult of these decisions is determining if and when it is time to cease extraordinary measures and to end their suffering from a catastrophic injury, illness, or advanced age.

Unless a string of catastrophic events lie ahead, this is the one thing we can say for sure: human numbers are going to keep rising in the next forty years or so, and the end result will be an ageing population reaching 9 billion people in the year 2050: this is what we need to be planning for.

I don't remember that much of the 70's, (born in 69) but there definitely was an apocalyptic gloom and doom, «end of the world» mentality going on, nuclear destruction, an ice age was coming, (due to CO2 and other pollutants) followed in the 80's, by fears of nuclear war and the take up of the catastrophic man made global warming vision.