Sentences with phrase «language of catastrophe»

The language of catastrophe is not the language of science.

Mike Hulme's remarks about overuse of the language of catastrophe are interesting, and to an extent I'd agree with him.

At times, this «alarming» story morphs into the more «alarmist» language of catastrophe, calamity or doom.

Not exact matches

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 educators and political leaders warned that the passage of Proposition 227 would be a catastrophe for the one in four California students who do not speak English as their primary language.

English after all is a catastrophe of a language.

I don't remember if you folks have done a post on the language and typology of «catastrophes» and «abrupt change,» but it might be a good idea, if you can find the time.

Provided a fellow academic wears left - wing clothes (speaks the language of the left: political correctness, identity politics, social justice, climate catastrophe...) they are given a free ride in academic publishing.

In a paper being published in the March - April edition of the journal Environment, Matthew C. Nisbet, a professor of communications at American University, said Mr. Gore's approach, focusing on language of crisis and catastrophe, could actually be serving the other side in the fight.

«There has been over-claiming or exaggeration, or at the very least casual use of language by scientists, some of whom are quite prominent,» Professor Hulme told BBC News -LSB-...] «My argument is about the dangers of science over-claiming its knowledge about the future and in particular presenting tentative predictions about climate change using words of «disaster», «apocalypse» and «catastrophe»,» he said.

Some observers worried that the mainstream media were promoting a language of crisis and looming catastrophe that fitted poorly with the gradual nature of the actual problem.