Sentences with phrase «not apocalyptic scenarios»

Drawdown focuses on small, practical steps, not apocalyptic scenarios and impossible solutions.

CN, but isn't that apocalyptic scenario you lay out perfectly consistent with the traditional role of the judge as sentencer?

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His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

In popular culture, there have been positive depictions of robots and artificial intelligence, such as in Star Wars and Star Trek, and there have been the not - so - positive — even apocalyptic — machine scenarios of The Terminator, The Matrix, and the revised Battlestar Galactica saga.

Of course, I don't advise this strategy because it is predicated on apocalyptic scenarios that are unlikely.

If someone had said it was too late, that nothing we could possibly do at this point will make any difference it wouldn't mean that we should have already seen an «apocalyptic scenario.»

We should stop trying to use apocalyptic scenarios to scare people — the science doesn't support it and it doesn't work anyway.»

This apocalyptic scenario illustrates why the goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius is not the safe «guardrail» most politicians and media coverage imply it is, argue Hansen and 16 colleagues in a blockbuster study they are publishing this week in the peer - reviewed journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Dyer considers this possibility Scenario Seven — though he does not quite write an actual scenario; he writes that it would be «too melodramatic, too apocalypticScenario Seven — though he does not quite write an actual scenario; he writes that it would be «too melodramatic, too apocalypticscenario; he writes that it would be «too melodramatic, too apocalyptic.»