Sentences with phrase «from future catastrophe»

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Here are some of the lessons we've learned from 2017, and what they suggest for how to prepare for future catastrophes.

She said that it's going to be coming out in the very near future that many of the catastrophes that have taken human lives in the State of New York have been the product of guns coming over the border from Vermont,» said State Sen. Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from Buffalo.

From ecosystem collapse to climate crunch, the warnings of future catastrophe could be staring us in the face

While careful not to assign blame, the report has a series of recommendations to prevent similar catastrophes in the future, including screening U.N. personnel from cholera - endemic areas for the presence of Vibrio cholerae before they leave home and giving them a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

If I was to claim that I need huge amounts of revenue from you to avoid certain catastrophe from a future asteroid collision, and that my computer models now predict this collision to be much more likely than previously thought, would you give me the same benefit of the doubt?

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

Knowing centers around M.I.T. professor, John Koestler, when he links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

It's a science - fiction film in J.G. Ballard's barest definition of the genre — an exploration of time, space, and identity set in the near future in a cloud of languages and ideas — that periodically soars like invention can when it's raised from a foundation of familiar catastrophe and intimate calamity.

Many parents have long objected to what is being taught in schools — from belief in an anthropogenic global warming catastrophe to banning acknowledgment of American exceptionalism — but fearing the power of teachers to hurt their children's futures, parents keep their mouths shut.

I'd just returned from a short trip, four days away on business, and I swear that Agustina was fine when I left, I swear nothing odd was going on, or at least nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing to suggest what would happen to her while I was gone, except for her own premonitions, of course, but how was I to believe her when Agustina is always predicting some catastrophe; I've tried everything to make her see reason, but she won't be swayed, insisting that ever since she was little she's had what she calls the gift of sight, or the ability to see the future, and God only knows the trouble that's caused us.

In other words, there is no point in saving for the future 30 years from now if you are unprepared for a catastrophe tomorrow.

Many Millennial's, fully accustomed to financial support from their parents, assume that any future catastrophes will continue to be covered in the same way.

Michael J. Panzner: Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes

From Daedalic Entertainment, the makers of The Whispered World, comes a new, thrilling adventure: A New Beginning takes you to a dark and frightening vision of a future, where a global climate catastrophe threatens the existence of humanity.

Bhabha's sculptures summon ancient totems that resemble artifacts sent from the future that allude to unknown (yet ever present contemporary) catastrophe.

Appearing as sci - fi visions of the future, monochromatic, large - scale, black - and - white photographs from Goicolea's Almost Safe series display what appear to be the remains of a war or environmental catastrophe.

As opposed to what has been apparent in painful testimonies by the financial czars of behemoth financial corporations, not to mention our revered economic icons, the objective in natural hazard mitigation has been to determine future impact from extreme but realistic natural catastrophes.

I don't think they understand that we will take our chances for now with a highly unpredictable outcome of the future climate compared with the utterly predictable destruction and catastrophe that will result from this totalitarian course of demagoguery, fear - mongering and lying which arises from the human character's weakness for the love of power.

The best that can be said for the catastrophist side is that there is at least some evidence that future warming or changes in sea level or ocean chemistry could be catastrophic, even though this evidence is far from conclusive and is actively contradicting most models that predict catastrophe at present.

The pessimist's case assumes that future catastrophes will come from the climate and its effects.

Judy's got it, the catastrophes from future warming, should we get it, will be local or regional.

Though not over what it is or why it's happening, but rather a reasonable and vigorous debate over which are the best policies and strategies available to divert ourselves, our children, and our civilization away from a looming catastrophe and towards a sustainable future.

It had the potential both to shock the world into economic transformation, averting future catastrophes, and to generate catastrophes of its own, including a shift into even more damaging technologies, such as biofuels and petrol made from coal.

The storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and associated excess deaths from AGW aren't «pumped up future catastrophes», they are now.

By all means let's put in place anything effective to reduce CO2 emissions... but if we don't learn from the past, and if keep pumping up ideas of future catastrophes, as in the biofuel case the environment will be worse for it, people will suffer for nothing and the usual suspects will get rich.

An insurance policy covers an individual from all sorts of future financial catastrophes.

Confirmed: Faraday Future has a car that can race up a hill faster than a Model S. That's a step up from the catastrophe the folks on the inside described it as late last year, at least.

We are entrusted with preventing humanitarian harm from existing weapons like incendiary weapons and from future weapons that will require new legal instruments to avoid catastrophes to come.