Sentences with phrase «with impending catastrophe»

Intended to mirror a scene created by amateurs during the opening hours of some terrible cataclysm, the scene appears like the work of a group of crazed convenience store workers who, faced with impending catastrophe, have taken whatever materials were close at hand and erected a slapdash religious altar.

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A few of the reasons: • I can read, check email, send text messages, or catch a few winks while I'm zipping to my destination • I have built - in motivation for walking, given that I have to get to and from the bus or train stop • I feel good that my ride isn't fueled by the conversion of fossilized sea life into impending climate catastrophe • I get to trade small talk and occasional newspaper sections with fellow transit riders.

Enter the Obama administration, which used the impending implosion to replace the discredited Bush plan for accountability with its own catastrophe.

Ubisoft definitely made the environment put you into a post catastrophe mood with glimmers of hope around one corner and impending doom around the other.

In protest against the impending ecological catastrophe, children infiltrate factories and «infect» adults with their cry for immediate action and change.

I am a huge fan of Tony Seba's writings and work, primarily because I am an engineer, and I simply can not accept that the situation with the impending climate catastrophe is hopeless.

Below is correspondence with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in response to a letter to the new Science Minister, David Willetts, calling for a thorough, independent, public inquiry into the science behind the claims of impending climate catastrophe.

As discussed above, responsibilities and therefore accusations of culpability with regard to the impending climate catastrophe should not be equally distributed.

It can not be underestimated how much the doubt sowed by supposed environmental journalists has distracted readers from the critical questions of how to deal with impending climate catastrophe.

Together with other anthropogenic changes in the Earth system that may herald the emergence of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene (9, 10), the global changes caused by human use of land are generally portrayed as the result of an unchecked and accelerating process that is mostly recent in origin (11) and therefore presents an impending catastrophe for humanity, the biosphere, and the Earth system in general (3, 12).

In face of impending environmental and social catastrophe, says Steffen, «all over the world, groups of people with graduate degrees, affluence, decades of work experience, varieties of advanced training and technological capacities beyond the imagining of our great - grandparents are coming together, looking into the face of apocalypse... and deciding to start a seed exchange or a kids clothing swap.»