66 Quotes About Catastrophe

SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

We are landless and listless, so estranged from our planet, so removed from the decision-making that governs it, so isolated from each other and the life we share this world with that we're seemingly unable even to come together and prevent global human and environmental catastrophe. We're still being decided and conquered by [land] enclosure, only now the fences are invisible and internal too.

This is the time we have to walk stepping on the storm.

لا يوجد داع للقلق أو للتشاؤم فالكوارث الحقيقية تأتي عادة بدون مقدمات

The word 'catastrophe' is not permitted as long as there is danger of catastrophe turning to doom.

The catastrophic event of 12,000 years ago, having melted much of the planet's ice and causing a global sea rise of some 350 feet, could have been so intense as to have raised global temperatures by six degrees Celsius [...]. The ending of the last ice age was not a gradual event, as most people would assume, but fast and intense.

Er bestrich sich Stirn und Brust, unwissend, was er aus seinem Zustande machen sollte, und ein unsägliches Wonnegefühl ergriff ihn, als ein Westwind, vom Meere her, sein wiederkehrendes Leben anwehte, und sein Auge sich nach allen Richtungen über die blühende Gegend von St. Jago hinwandte.