Sentences with phrase «precipitous collapse»
Cases of severe civilizational disruption due to «precipitous collapse — often lasting centuries — have been quite common.»
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Witness the precipitous and possibly fatal collapse of the NAACP.
Everything is collapsed from such a precipitous rise in temperature.
Everything collapsed in shock by wilting, etc., including me, from the precipitous change.
With a promising start, delivering almost 1,100 MW for a brief spurt, the team determined to down tools after breakfast, with a precipitous 500 MW collapse in less than 90 minutes.
Is not the precipitous loss of groundwater levels, the fact that deep, rich agricultural soils that took thousands of years to be generated but are now exhausted in less than a decade, the collapse of marine fisheries, the loss of biodiversity (thousands of times higher than background rates), the number of species becoming endangered etc. etc. etc. not enough to say that we are headed in the wrong direction?
Although bees have been getting the spotlight for Colony Collapse Disorder, bats are suffering from «the most precipitous wildlife decline in the past century in North America,» according to biologists.
Other organisations fear the collapse of generally well functioning organisations because of the precipitous withdrawal of funding without time to plan or structurally adjust, the climate of extreme uncertainty, and the uncertainty as to security of land and assets.