Considering the speed at which the world is hurtling toward heating up 2°C higher than pre-industrial levels the tipping point after which the world will be struck by the worst effects of climate change, according to many experts—it could be the last major opportunity for the US to prevent the most extreme environmental disasters humanity has ever seen.
Discussion about, and acceptance of the idea of the Anthropocene forces us to reflect critically on humanities relationship with hazards and the disasters they may cause, but also on the disaster of humanity for the planet and the more-than-human.
This gamble risks disaster for humanity with unmanageable sea-level rise, heat waves, droughts and floods".
"The Roman Catholic church's views on sexuality have been a disaster for humanity".
Call the advent of Sarah Palin and her ilk a victory for feminism if you must, but it's a disaster for humanity.
There was some opposition to the referendum result, not least from the Vatican, where a Holy See official last Wednesday described the result as a "disaster for humanity".
On its website, the Sierra Club says: "If the level stays higher than 350ppm for a prolonged period of time, it will spell disaster for humanity as we know it".
The families were appalled by the eventual verdict of accidental death rather than unlawful killing, and felt that the police force principally responsible for so many deaths had behaved, from the day of the disaster, without humanity.
My new novel for children, Aliens Stink!, is a science-fiction comedy that details the surprise depollution of Planet Earth at extra-terrestrial hands, and the arrival of a planet-wide pong that could spell (or smell) disaster for humanity… But, wait.
So who you gonna call when two mechanical races team up to bring disaster to humanity?
