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In 2011, a tsunami surpassed the flood wall protecting Japan's Fukushima Power Plant, causing a nuclear disaster in addition to claiming over 18,000 lives.
It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.
Our glaciers are melting, causing flash floods and landslides, which in turn are causing disaster and widespread destruction in our country.
Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence.
When disaster hits, when turmoil hits, we share the consequences.
Right now, our species is propagating an environmental disaster of geological proportions that is so broad and so severe, it can rightly be called the sixth extinction.
It's a recipe for financial disaster later in life to the uneducated because, to a young person, they see money as limitless because they have no concept of the backend until it comes around to bite them in the back end.
But it could be a disaster if your drive is deigned to eliminate the species entirely.
Does it have to take a tragedy or a disaster for us to feel deeply connected as one species, as human beings?
And for 100 years, none of our ideas as to how to solve this basically physics disaster, has ever been supported by evidence.
An ingenious metaphor for this tragic setting is the O-ring production function, named by Harvard economist Michael Kremer after the Challenger disaster.
Well, it could be a disaster movie.
It certainly seems like a disaster.
That's nothing about foreign aid, that's just disaster relief.
YNH: One option that some people talk about is that only a catastrophe can shake humankind and open the path to a real system of global governance, and they say that we can't do it before the catastrophe, but we need to start laying the foundations so that when the disaster strikes, we can react quickly.
But people will just not have the motivation to do such a thing before the disaster strikes.
And if we now try to reengineer the world inside us without really understanding it, especially without understanding the complexity of our mental system, we might cause a kind of internal ecological disaster, and we'll face a kind of mental meltdown inside us.
In Greek, there's a word, "lachesism" which is the hunger for disaster.
CA: You've written that this entire century has basically been a disaster, that the age of sunny growth is over and we're in deep trouble.
This is a total disaster.
Prosecutor: And yet both his foreign and domestic policies were a disaster.
It was a disaster.
Ultimately, 19 people were killed in this disaster.
They never passed on any of the wealth, So everybody got stuck at that $3.50-an-hour job, and it turned out to be a disaster.
He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.
I will not deal with those first two, except to say that uncritical transfer of assumptions, from one context to another, can only make for disaster.
You rush over and pull the emergency switch just as the seventh generation of rabbits was about to mature – hare-raisingly close to disaster.
It was actually a terrible disaster for Princeton.
There is greater risk of displacement, higher odds of being injured or killed during a natural disaster.
But now, flooding means ... disaster.
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