Sentences with phrase «of a global catastrophe»

A year ago, with some progress made in reducing the threat of a global catastrophe the time was moved back from five to six minutes before midnight.

At the risk of sounding cynical, a prediction of global catastrophe that's wrong by twenty years is not particularly helpful.

There is nothing short of global catastrophe that will allow me to give him another year of «let's wait and see»

But Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Program Director Benjamin Schreiber decried it as one that «moves us closer to the brink of global catastrophe.»

Simpler, poorer and less free societies might be all that humans would be capable of in the wake of a global catastrophe.

Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL fundraiser last night, and various back - channel email lists and Facebook groups buzzed with people sick and tired of repetitive fundraising messages sent by campaigns, PACs and the party committees.

Wielding the rhetoric of global catastrophe, «hard sustainability» claims the status of supreme necessity.

In recent years, we've seen our news feeds become so inundated with a seemingly constant stream of global catastrophes and political talking points, that it's no surprise many of us...

Hence, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that the Norwegian government is building deep in the permafrost as a last refuge for millions of seeds in case of global catastrophe — natural or man - made.

The clock now shows 3 minutes before midnight because the «probability of global catastrophe is very high» as a result of continuing climate change and efforts to modernize nuclear weapons stockpiles.

The trailer is chock full of global catastrophes and world monuments getting destroyed... you know, the usual stuff.

The so - called «Doomsday Vault» in Svalbard, Norway — whose sole purpose is to provide duplicate seeds in the event of a global catastrophe — has received a great deal of attention.

Any notion which doesn't take the possibility of global catastrophe for granted is excluded from the discussion, and so the discussion about how to organise our lives is premised on the idea that if we don't recognise environmental imperatives, we will necessarily create Thermageddon.

This past January, the journal reset the Doomsday Clock, its symbol of the imminence of global catastrophe, to a heart - stopping three minutes to midnight — closer than the seven minutes - to - midnight setting during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Company managements, policymakers and investors fear that the worsening European economies have put us on the verge of another global catastrophe.

In the James Bond universe, the lives of regular people would be largely unaffected if the villain gets his or her way, whereas in the «Kingsman» world, the consequences are nothing short of a global catastrophe.

Designed for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, this unique science fiction game teleports players into the year 2301 where Earth is on the brink of a global catastrophe.

[Available in the US in December 2015] The first project under THQ's partnership with game creator Tomonobu Itagaki and his newly formed Valhalla Game Studios, Devil's Third is a fast - paced action game set in the near future in the wake of a global catastrophe.

The nauseating, facile and easily debunked optimism of green capitalists always belied their threat of global catastrophe.