Sentences with phrase «human catastrophe»

If our prayer is that we be spared the ultimate human catastrophe, the answer is No.

Here you will find the ways in which the left embraced eugenics, «scientific» racialism, the campaign to ban Christianity from the public square, and utopian politics, all resulting in the great human catastrophes of the century past.

Attesting to Golub's incisive perspective on human catastrophes and his critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity, the exhibition will feature Golub's monumental and terrifying «Gigantomachy II» alongside works from his most important series, including «Pylon,» «Riot» and «White Squad.»

Wes Craven, the famous writer and director of horror movies, could have scripted several of the gruesome human catastrophes in the Old Testament.

Over 600,000 violent deaths in a population estimated in 2006 at 26.8 million — that is, one in every 45 individuals — amounts to a made - in - America human catastrophe.

The possibility of major human catastrophe, whether by nuclear holocaust or by irreversible ecological disaster, is all too real.

Only a company such as Nestle would see a profit among such human catastrophe.

He argued that politicians, despite their knowledge of what policy should be, pandered to the naive public attitudes about foreign and economic policy (pursuing a populist rather than considered path) and wandered blindly into the biggest human catastrophe of the twentieth century.

«The floods in Pakistan have been an almost unimaginable human catastrophe,» Mr Clegg said.

In particular, Dyer offers eight scenarios of climate - induced human catastrophe over the next half century that draw on war...

The ongoing contemporary global human catastrophe of the refugee crisis is very present and powerful at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Featuring work by Hayden Dunham, Dominic Samsworth, Lila de Magalhaes, Marian Tubbs and more, the theme of the show follows contemporary anxieties over climate change and capitalist destruction in a short introductory text that follows the mutant realities of imminent human catastrophe:

Without a known treatment, or the ability to quarantine, the blight killed billions of this continent's most sturdy and impressive trees, an ecological tragedy strangely correlated with the human catastrophes of the Great War, its tenuous aftermath, and the Great Depression.

«In the wake of this human catastrophe we have to ask ourselves if we are really prepared to deal with a natural disaster or a terrorist event at Indian Point or collateral issues like loss of power or inability to cool fuel rods,» Lowey said.

''... or someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.»

For someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.

As the winds raged and the floodwaters rose in Houston and other Gulf Coast cities last week, the nation rightly focused on the human catastrophe — the lives lost, homes destroyed, and futures upended.

A lot of people suffered because of this human catastrophe.