Sentences with phrase «colossal wreckage»

Why did you and your leaders not stop what you were doing and at least try to do something different, that might have given life as we know it a chance for a good enough future rather than keep charging ahead down the «primrose path» you could see would soon lead humankind to confront some kind of colossal wreckage, the likes of which only Ozymandias has seen?
I am only guessing now you and I agree, given its present gigantic scale, that the endlessly expanding global economy in a finite world with make - up and relatively small size of Earth, will eventually reach a point in history when this leviathan - like, manmade economy produces some kind of unimaginable colossal wreckage.
If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

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Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.
By «giving» us twenty years, I suppose he will not disturb the reigning, self - proclaimed masters of the universe among us from my not - so - great generation of elders who have set their sights on rampantly growing the leviathan - like global economy until its unbridled increase becomes unsustainable and produces some kind of colossal ecological wreckage, the likes of which only Ozymandias has seen....
Too many of our brothers and sisters have chosen to silently acquiesce, to stand by and allow the absence of necessary constraints on the gigantic scale and growth rate of the global economy to produce the probability of a colossal ecological wreckage in the future.
If these leaders continue to adamantly insist that we keep producing endlessly as we are doing now and if we keep getting what we are likely to keep getting by overproducing as we are now, then the unbridled growth of the global economy in all likelihood will soon precipitate a colossal ecological wreckage worldwide unless, of course, the ever expanding global economy proceeds like a runaway train headlong into the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» where the manmade economy crashes and destructs before rampant economic globalization destroys God's Creation.
What really matters regarding the coming unimaginable colossal global ecological wreckage that could soon be induced at the behest of too many leaders «on our watch» is not being openly discussed nearly enough.
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