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Given the current trajectory of global fossil-fuel use, the planet's temperature is likely to rise by 4-6 degrees Celsius above its pre-industrial level, an increase that would be catastrophic for food production, human health, and biodiversity; indeed, in many parts of the world, it would threaten communities' survival.

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In fact, high-school athletes are three times more likely to sustain catastrophic injuries relative even to their college-age peers, and it takes them longer to return to a symptom-free baseline.

My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.

Suddenly, I had an episode of catastrophic bleeding.

What happened to me might have been catastrophic, if not for the fact that I was in reach of good surgical access.

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