Sentences with phrase «utter catastrophe»

And utter catastrophe does look like a realistic possibility, even if it is not the most likely outcome.

Extensive negotiations did bring pledges from essentially all the world's governments to cut their emissions, which might avoid utter catastrophe.

And utter catastrophe does look like a realistic possibility, even if it is not the most likely outcome.

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.

It could have been handled differently, should have been handled differently, but it's not an utter catastrophe.»

Tory London mayor Boris Johnson told The Daily Telegraph Scotland going independent would be «an utter catastrophe».

Right now I think Alan Smith is spot on though and without being too pessimistic, we are just one or two injuries short at the back from being an utter catastrophe.

This was an utter catastrophe for Pep.

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.

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.

It's not a massive improvement, but it's not an utter catastrophe like most recent Republican «bipartisan agreements.»

But utter catastrophe might be avoided, and future meetings would press for ever stronger pledges.

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.