Moore actually assumed the Tories were going to lose the 1983 election, and that Labour would remove nuclear weapons from British soil – thus paving the way for the avoidance of nuclear catastrophe that engulfs the rest of his unhappy world.
The subsequent text seems to suggest that the "replication parsimony" principle is a combination of the minimization of replication cost in terms of energy and supply expenditure, and avoidance of the "error catastrophe" by minimizing the genome size.
We are on the brink of catastrophe".
"Contagion" — A businesslike, unexaggerated vision of catastrophe.
The true catastrophe is that we are living under a permanent threat of catastrophe"..
That is the promise of catastrophe models like RMS'.
The authors believe that predictions of catastrophe are overstated.
Forecasts of "catastrophe," "Armageddon," and "apocalypse" have now become routine.
But in the midst of catastrophe art struggled on.
The answer may depend on your definition of catastrophe.
