Sentences with phrase «of utter catastrophe»

I had to be on the verge of utter catastrophe to begin to feel the effects of cognitive decline to do all this work and then feel the effects of all this healing that happens when you provide a healthy habitat for the human ecosystem and all this repair happens.

As Harvard's Martin Weitzman has argued in several influential papers, if there is a significant chance of utter catastrophe, that chance — rather than what is most likely to happen — should dominate cost - benefit calculations.

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If the sign of a great filmmaker is his ability to make a bad actor seem good, Bird is a frickin» genius for making something Lindelof worked on not an utter catastrophe.

I'm probably too simple, but in my classic view of cost vs. benefit risk analysis, if one possible risk is utter (total) catastrophe the cost approaches infinity so mitigation is demanded even it its probability is zero.

The possible effects of the problem range from trivial and insignificant, to serious hardships of various sorts (well publicized by Gore et al), to utter catastrophe.