Sentences with phrase «global disaster facing»

Back in 1976, people were yammering on about the «global disaster facing humanity,» about «worldwide catastrophe» in our «near future,» about how we'd end up extinct if we didn't stop being so greedy and environmentally irresponsible.

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Conservationists house these seeds as insurance for global food security in the face of war, natural disaster and climate change.

Faced with dwindling natural resources and imminent global disaster, we seem unable to turn off the tap.

Below, as time allows, I'll add input from experts on the challenges and opportunities facing Haiti in the months and years ahead as efforts are made to «build back better,» in the parlance of planners, engineers and seismologists who are part of a global movement to reduce losses from inevitable disasters.

In a separate development, a report in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper said the IPCC faced «new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters», in its 2007 milestone report.

Similarly with environmental disaster — you might find it is a new incurable plague we face, or a crop disease, or an asteroid, or the rise of a new global dictatorial cult, or an invasion of vampire moths.

Literally thousands of scientists disagree with claims that we face an imminent manmade global warming disaster, or that warming is connected to disease or harvests.

With the world facing increased warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, intense weather events and other global disasters, scientists are exploring ways to re-engineer the planet to counter the effects of global warming.