Sentences with phrase «less of a catastrophe»

Not exact matches

I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.

In prophetic utterance of that time and in later cultic liturgy, the catastrophe was deemed to be (no less than exodus or Zion) the disclosure and effects of God's will and power.

My priest friend attacked him publicly for preaching such religious «opium» and stated that the catastrophe was not an accident at all, much less the will of God, but rather the result of an exploitative system that puts profits ahead of human lives and well - being.

The theme of impending catastrophe is sounded no less forthrightly than in Amos.

The fairly shambolic nature of the response from the west, and the international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.

Here the authors are not mentioning that values at the lower end of the spectrum represent a less dramatic situation than a value at the higher end of the spectrum, which probably would have really supported a climate catastrophe.

All students are limited by standardized one - size - fits - all instruction, but it is a special catastrophe for vulnerable children who are less able to keep up with the pace of instruction.

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.

With less debt, you save money on interest charges and reduce your risk of financial catastrophe if your income is disrupted and you are unable to make payments.

That's right around the national average, and far less than the cost of dealing with a catastrophe without coverage!

Property - catastrophe made a lot of money because there were no significant catastrophes in 2014, but rates are presently inadequate there, and BRK is likely to write less of it in 2015.

As time went by, we felt disappointed when we saw so - called Christians who choose to care more about abortions than the welfare of less fortunate but alive children, or about keeping a brain - dead woman alive while ignoring the massive health - care crisis in this country that leaves millions of poor people without any medical care, even for preventable health catastrophes.

But if you want to go with less coverage and get insurance for, say, $ 10 a month to cover a catastrophe or perhaps only some basic wellness treatments, those options are available through each of my top picks, too.

Why should climate change necessarily create catastrophe — of which there is much less agreement — let alone a political response to mitigate that catastrophe?

Acceptance of clearly erroneous papers, such as those from Mann et al., pasted - together climate reconstructions, a tendency to jump on every temperature blip as proof of imminent catastrophe, etc. all serve to show that the community is less interested in communicating the truth than it is in maintaining a narrative of impending doom.

And 2 ˚C is far, far too high, given the now clear evidence that at less than 1 ˚C of warming we are already on the precipice of climate catastrophe, from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Himalayas to Siberia.

may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

I can not see how adding nuance to the degree of future catastrophe the claim asserts will make it any more or less convincing.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

With all the doom and gloom of global warming alarmism, this unexpected truth of modern global warming being less than the pre-modern era is an indicator that man - made catastrophe is not just around the corner.

And worst of all, everybody involved in UK politics seemed to be using the looming catastrophe to demand that people use less, expect less, and obey the tenets of environmentalism.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

IMO it's not particularly sensible to frame the entire issue in terms of the small chance of «climate catastrophe» because then we risk having the rug abruptly pulled out from under our policies when someone proves that the catastrophe is less likely than was previously thought: — RRB - Also, arguing over the precise threshold probability for particular outcomes risks turning into angels - on - pins stuff.

One can think of a GHG abatement policy as a form of insurance: society would be paying for a guarantee that a low - probability catastrophe will not occur (or is less likely).

And there is an obvious selection effect that on average, the selected published models will be close to the observations, but that the disagreements may more or less cancel statistically: I wouldn't be surprised if ON AVERAGE, astrological predictions would be shown to give a reasonable rate of various catastrophes, earthquakes,

If you're enticed by the opportunity to be responsible for new species, one suggests genetic engineering is more timely, and less costly than inducing catastrophe to create new niches or eliminate old denizens of current ones.

While the tornado risk in Beaufort is small, as it is 43 percent less than the national average, it is important to bear in mind that major catastrophes such as tornadoes, hurricanes and house - fires can lead to a total loss of your home and all the property you keep inside.

That's right around the national average, and far less than the cost of dealing with a catastrophe without coverage!