The phrase
"global catastrophe" means a significant and widespread disaster or event that has a severe negative impact on people and the environment all over the world. It refers to a situation that has the potential to cause immense destruction and disruption on a global scale.
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At the risk of sounding cynical, a prediction
of global catastrophe that's wrong by twenty years is not particularly helpful.
Byrne stars alongside Dwayne Johnson to save the world from
global catastrophe in the action film Rampage loosely based on the video game of the same name.
No, your friend isn't James Bond, and you aren't the next Q. Still, even as you watch the video, your window - TV is doing as much to help
avert global catastrophe as any Bond - film gadget ever did.
Any notion which doesn't take the possibility of
global catastrophe for granted is excluded from the discussion, and so the discussion about how to organise our lives is premised on the idea that if we don't recognise environmental imperatives, we will necessarily create Thermageddon.
After a mission ends badly, Hunt attempts to save the world
from global catastrophe while the CIA begin to question his loyalty to the agency.
Remember, we are told that the consensus consists only of climate scientists who believe in
imminent global catastrophe, and anything to the contrary is «conspiracy ideation.»
Spend a little more time observing meteors or combating climate change, spend a little less time worrying
about global catastrophes.
Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's novel, first published in 1932, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge
into global catastrophe as the first world war devastates her village.
BURBANK, CA (May 30, 2017)-- A
looming global catastrophe forces Batman and Nightwing to partner with an unlikely hero in Batman and Harley Quinn, the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe Original Movies.
Using dirtier fossil fuels (Plan A) or switching to renewable energy sources (Plan B) allows people to remain complacent in the face of a
potential global catastrophe.
If you only read the U.S. press, you'd think that renewable energy is the most environmentally and socially devastating idea we'd ever had — paving over deserts, killing birds in wind turbines, promoting communism, fascism and moral depravity of all sorts, and now,
threatening global catastrophe via overpopulation — and did you know that species extinction in the tropics is all due to the expansion of biofuels for export?
The zombie virus has become a full
blown global catastrophe and California has been hit the hardest resulting in a statewide quarantine.
I isolated my characters long
before global catastrophe struck, so that once it did, their struggles would be less about how the logistics of life have changed and more about the interior toll of such a shift.
In addition to presenting found videos, Dolan will discuss the relationship
between global catastrophe and everyday life, the similarities between environmental primitivism and art making, and the common destructive patterns and cycles in art and everyday life.
The iconic - yet - imaginary Doomsday Clock is now two minutes to midnight, signaling that the world is the closest to a
hypothetical global catastrophe that it's been in decades.
First is the systematic process by which the Drawdown team set out to show that we really can stabilize the climate system, in time to avoid
cascading global catastrophe.
Smil is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and the author of 30 books, the most recent being «
The Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years.»
Admiral Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) and the crew of the atomic submarine Seaview battle saboteurs, giant sea - creatures and attacks by enemy submarines as they race to
prevent global catastrophe.
Asteroid impacts that
cause global catastrophe are climate - changing events, and most of the resulting fatalities would be due to that change (which would cause social disruption that is expected to lead to starvation, disease and violence).
Global Catastrophes in Earth History; An Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality
Their existence is predicated on
imminent global catastrophes that were always implausible and ridiculous (or to put this another way, popular fads and fashions), but become increasingly more obviously so to the «man on the street» as time passes.
Global warming becomes the perfect issue for the inner city symbol manipulators, since it is both grandiose (an alleged
looming global catastrophe) and the ultimate sign of the «wickedness» of the Gaia - damaging stuff producers.