"collective peril" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which a group or community faces a shared danger or threat. For example, "The economic crisis created a sense of collective peril among the citizens, but working together they were eventually able to get through it."
And if we don't – well, to the extent that we don't, it's to our own collective peril".
High-speed Ferrari crashes, murder trials, corruption, princelings cut down to size and awaiting trial all crystalised into one idea: you rock the boat at your collective peril.
Reading how Jim Smith, the river bailiff, appears to have no place in the world of today makes me weep; we continue lose the knowledge and love of people like him at our collective peril.
"When you have smart economists saying we could see benefits after 40 years of disruption, there's a problem". According to Twomey and others, we are also (broadly speaking) diving head-first and rose-filtered into AI at our own collective peril.
Both parties ignore this at our collective peril.
You separate the two at your and our collective peril.
Tempting as it may be to oppose an evidence-based conclusion with passion, conviction and wishful thinking -- we do so at our collective, and individual peril.
Earlier this year I wrote about how much of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement's (CBMA) work has been rooted in reconciling the American paradox of promise and peril in collective efforts to improve the life outcomes of Black men, women and children.
Hollis wants us, I think, to come away from these tales of the lives of famous buildings with the idea that, however solid they might appear, such monuments and structures are almost febrile things, and as such we try to pin them down, and conserve them, at any one single point in their aesthetic history, at the peril of our collective imagination.
Oh, the infectious nature of a "we" narration, the perils of a collective voice.
Without hysteria or overstatement, she reminds us that folksong taps a collective history that we ignore at our peril.
