Unlike many writers on environmental cataclysm, McKibben is actually a writer, and a very good one at that.
When Ballard writes about environmental cataclysm now, he joins a large chorus: one doesn't need the car to forge a link between sex and death anymore... "...
Currently, 100,000 barrels of oil billow into the Gulf of Mexico, according to BP's own worst-case-scenario – an environmental cataclysm of indeed biblical proportions.
Dinosaurs were unlucky 65 million years ago when a meteor struck off the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico; they died out in the environmental cataclysm that followed.
When Ballard writes about environmental cataclysm now, he joins a large chorus: one doesn't need the car to forge a link between sex and death anymore... "..
Just as Christopher Nolan (who produces here) did with Batman, Zack Snyder ( 300) presides over a creation myth: Superman is sent into space by his father, played by Russell Crowe as if he were God Himself, and thus escapes the environmental cataclysm that destroys his home planet Krypton.
The alternative is too gloomy to countenance; a public, whipped into a frenzy of anger over an environmental cataclysm, responding with a knee-jerk anti-governmentalism that renders it even harder, in the long-run, to rein in Big Oil or to clean up Big Oil's messes when they next occur.
The Tipaimukh Dam would add to the environmental cataclysm already predicted by environmentalists.
Fear of war, of famine, of persecution and, increasingly, of environmental cataclysm.
Who knows, maybe we can create a publicly traded derivative to hedge our retirement funds against war, environmental cataclysm, nuclear annihilation and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
