Sentence examples for averting catastrophe from inspiring English sources

And yet the kind of large-scale transition that would give us a collective chance of averting catastrophe eludes us.

By contrast, scientists, clearly unaware of the need for balance, say that global emissions need to peak by 2020 if there's to be any hope of averting catastrophe.

"The scientific consensus on climate change has never been greater and we have been told that the only way we have a chance of averting catastrophe is by leaving large reserves of oil in the ground".

Except every time this happened, back when everyone had a land line and area codes meant something, the telephone company saw it a mile away, and added a new area code for a given geographic area, thus averting catastrophe.

We are stuck, because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe – and benefit the vast majority – are threatening to an elite minority with a stranglehold over our economy, political process and media.

We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe – and would benefit the vast majority – are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.

Science has helped us avert catastrophe many times in the past.

O'Neill was proud of the efforts of the F.B.I. and the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force to avert catastrophe.

"That Team Obama helped avert catastrophe," Scheiber writes, is "beyond question".

And they complained that moderate Republicans were failing to speak up to avert catastrophe.

The officials argued that they did what they had to do to avert catastrophe.