Sentences with phrase «edge of catastrophe»

«Facebook has been on the edge of this catastrophe for a long time,» said Josh Crandall, principal analyst at Netpop Research.

But OCI wanted the numbers for a different reason: to figure out how close to the edge of catastrophe we've already come.

I suspect the day is approaching when science will by law become policy, policy pulled out of thin air at the very edge of catastrophe.

We are a country where many of our people are living on the edge of catastrophe if not in the middle of it.

In 2008, Israel teetered on the edge of catastrophe.

Not exact matches

In the end, America swerved away from the edge of financial catastrophe once again.

President Barack Obama insists this isn't just another temporary respite before Washington drives the country, and the rest of the world, to the edge of financial catastrophe once again.

While the global economy is teetering on the edge of collapse, what alternative systems could possibly be put in place quickly enough to prevent a total catastrophe should the current system be eliminated and / or substantially reworked?

Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

As Peter Moore recounts in The Weather Experiment, the need to avert another such catastrophe impelled the development of modern weather forecasting, and the telegraph was the cutting - edge technology that made it possible.

Cutting - edge physics and gripping visuals re-create the sheer terror of major catastrophes.

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

This year's acclaimed performance festival Prototype: Opera / Theater / Now, known for producing some of the most cutting - edge musical theater in the city, brings the world premier of «Angel's Bone,» an opera about human trafficking from the eclectic composer Du Yun, and «Dog Days,» a moving opera from David T. Little and Royce Vavrek about how one family survives in the aftermath of an apocalyptic catastrophe.

As the climate crisis worsens and we stand closer to the edge of an imminent climate catastrophe, governments of the world are starting to realize the importance of sustainable energy production.

GRIST January 2, 2009 We're gonna need a bigger boat Scientists and other experts rattle off options for averting climate catastrophe Meanwhile, the mysterious Edge Foundation released its annual question for 2009, asking smart folks of all disciplines to name what new idea or technology will «change everything.»