Sentences with phrase «simpler reason altogether»

Annihilation will be all the more unusual an addition to the larger sci - fi film genre for a much simpler reason altogether: its primary characters are pretty much entirely female.

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The reason is simple: the shipping industry has stopped hoping for a return to the freight rate levels of 2006 - 08 and started to plan for an altogether different set of challenges

I then moved on to the simple knee - jerk reaction of dismissing the event altogether for a couple of years, unwilling to accept its reason in my art world.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.