Brink
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Some are actually on the
brink
of extinction.
It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the
brink
of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods.
Now, if you're not currently experiencing the joy of the joint tax return, I can't tell you how to find a chore-loving person of the approximately ideal size and attractiveness, who prefers horror movies and doesn't have a lot of friends hovering on the
brink
of divorce, but I can only encourage you to try, because the benefits, as I've pointed out, are significant.
But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the
brink
on dramatic change.
Industry is on the
brink
of deepening fisheries such as these into the mid-water in what could start a kind of twilight zone gold rush operating outside the reach of national fishing regulations.
How do you introduce the concept of running to a nation that is constantly at the
brink
of war?
Drought drives the small village into poverty and to the
brink
of starvation.
Today's sexual landscape looks a lot like Europe and America on the
brink
of the sexual revolution.
And let's face it, the credit rating agencies have contributed, putting the global economy on the brink, and yet they have to change the way they operate.
It used to grow on the mainland, but through the sheer pressures of urbanization has been pushed out of the mainland, and we've managed to bring it back from the
brink
of extinction by developing in vitro plants which are now growing in the wild.
Is it any surprise that our world, marching to the drumbeat of GDP, is teetering on the
brink
of environmental disaster and filled with anger and conflict?
So that an arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the
brink
of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
So basically, every time we feel that we are on the
brink
of peace, the conflict explodes again.
and they can tell us more about not only life in our solar system but also maybe beyond, and this is why I am tracking them down in the most impossible places on Earth, in extreme environments where conditions are really pushing them to the
brink
of survival.
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the
brink
of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
And that is why their leaders think twice, step back from the brink, and decide to focus on economic ties over territorial tensions.
In theory, this means we could restore hundreds of native species that have been pushed to the
brink.
She brought Kenya back from the
brink
of environmental devastation.
If our brains are just as subject to data tracking and aggregation as our financial records and transactions, if our brains can be hacked and tracked like our online activities, our mobile phones and applications, then we're on the
brink
of a dangerous threat to our collective humanity.
Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the
brink
of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.
And animals, almost on the
brink
of extinction, can be given a second chance.
And basically, we lived for all those years, and some might argue that we still do, in a situation of being on the brink, literally, of an apocalyptic, planetary calamity.
I think we are at the
brink
of being able to take an AI, look over our shoulders, and they make us maybe 10 or 50 times as effective in these repetitive things.
But his endless questioning raises yet another anxiety: is Hamlet’s madness part of a performance to confuse his enemies, or are we watching a character on the
brink
of insanity?
Now, as I was thinking about the extremes of stress and turbulence that we know we will have to confront, I went and I talked to a number of chief executives whose own businesses had gone through existential crises, when they teetered on the
brink
of collapse.
The Russian monarchy was on the
brink
of collapse, and to Yusupov and his fellow aristocrats, the holy man they’d invited to dinner was the single cause of it all.
Now, first let me remind you how much work it took to get us where we are, to be on the
brink
of true global social organization.
Now, both species were hunted to the
brink
of extinction by the early whalers, but the Southern right whales have rebounded a lot better because they're located in places farther away from human activity.
For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the
brink
of commercial extinction.
Our livestock was almost at the
brink
of extinction, protected as well.
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