Such change tends towards sterilisation and irreversibility, without a crash or an external catastrophe such as a war.
The external reasons for the sectarian catastrophe that threatens the Middle East are equally obvious.
An element of cosmic collusion among the hero's flaw, chance, necessity, and other external forces is essential to bring about the tragic catastrophe.
The chain of causation resulting in war, poverty, global warming, ecological catastrophe, and the myriad afflictions of our species is not an external problem but a problem of the human heart.
It is catastrophes such as these that challenge us to relinquish our attachment to the external, to evaluate what is real, what is truly important, and discard what is not.
As for as security is concerned, in the traditional sense it is understood as security of the state from external military attack or as protecting the national interests or as a global security from nuclear catastrophe (UNDP 1994).
When a health catastrophe strikes, many governments and UN organisations such as the World Health Organisation are subjected to sustained internal and external review.
The story follows Captain Martin Walker, sent into a post-catastrophe Dubai with an elite Delta Force team on a reconnaissance mission that soon descends into chaos, both external and mental.
These were natural catastrophes.
