If we leave the EU, I believe the effects on the broader care industry and the NHS will be catastrophic, a view echoed by the TUC.
The Watchmen author also used a lengthy recent interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid at Slovobooks entitled "Last Alan Moore interview?" – to expand upon his belief that today's adults' interest in superheroes is potentially "culturally catastrophic", a view originally aired in the Guardian last year.
Now that climate change is regarded as man-made, and its catastrophic impacts viewed as inevitable, the cards are being reshuffled in society and politics.
"It was catastrophic, in my view, when [some] western leaders said we will fight Isis with military, political, strategic, diplomatic and humanitarian means … How will it then be possible for us to help those poor souls in the so-called caliphate?" he says, referring to humanitarian work being carried out in areas controlled by Isis.
Each side today, like these two men, sees the other as malignant, promulgating views catastrophic for America; strident partisanship is virile patriotism and compromise is castration.
According to that view, the catastrophic practices of industrial civilization must give way to a different mode of living where humans "walk lightly" on the planet, harmonizing their activities with natural cycles.
"In my view the catastrophic predictions we have had in the past of the whole system grinding to a halt, they [the supreme court judges] have prevented that from happening," he said.
Robert Gates, former US Secretary of Defence – so hardly a dovish man – said that, "the results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world". .
