The risk is that this shift could become a demographic disaster marked by rising levels of youth unemployment, social dislocation and hunger.
A senior Thai army officer has turned himself in over his alleged involvement in the south-east Asia human trafficking disaster, marking the first arrest of a military official since the investigation started in May.
And look at Lac Mégantic [the rail disaster marked its first anniversary this past weekend].
While the disaster marked the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, the greater tragedy was that much of the devastation was preventable.
Silverberg, for her part, said that the experience was the latest in a string of disasters marked by heroism at the hospital: "9/11, Irene, and now this".
The 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster was marked by a minute's applause and some nice touches from Liverpool's local rivals.
As a kid, I heard of Detroit by watching RoboCop, which portrayed the city as a disaster area marked by rampant street crime and corporate exploitation.
This was a disaster, and marked the beginning of the end for the earl of Leicester.
Creating scenes reminiscent of an apocalyptic disaster, Sandy marked a time when the climate crisis became real for many Americans.
The wall was a propaganda disaster, and marked the end of Khrushchev's attempts to conclude a peace treaty among the Four Powers and the two German states.
