But potentially nothing cataclysmic.
That is a loss of cataclysmic proportions".
But last week's cataclysmic floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, surrounded by the Himalayas, have provoked a debate on whether this particular disaster was caused - or at least worsened - by reckless human greed.
As stated by Mahley: 'A cataclysmic event in human history driving the evolution of apoE4 to apoE3 to apoE2 could have been an infectious disease, such as the Great Plague, which killed 30 50% of Europeans in the 14th century, or smallpox' [ 50].
But the condition of their economies upon leaving office, with the cataclysmic exception of Venezuela, is nowhere near the state of economic chaos left behind by the region's disastrous free-market experiments of the 1990s.
So it cannot be agricultural self-sufficiency that makes the EU food secure, yet food secure it undoubtedly is at the level of the EU itself and of each member state in circumstances short of the cataclysmic.
I haven't finessed the plot yet, but it will be set in a futuristic city-state in the years following a cataclysmic era called the Inter-Generational Wars.
Wisconsin has a less cataclysmic Rust Belt than Michigan does, but it, too, is a state where the ire and dread that threatened workers feel can be channelled, quite logically, toward the spectre of globalized, élite-directed trade.
Barring some cataclysmic political upheaval, the Republicans have a solid hold on 23 states with 200 electoral votes; the Democrats can probably count on 11 states and the District of Columbia for 168 votes.
