We hear a lot from people who argue that we are heading for catastrophe.
Despite ample scientific warning that we were headed for catastrophe, we'd done even less to change course.
The banquets given in his honour in Paris could not conceal the truth from him: France was headed for catastrophe.
One is the prediction that the world's forests and a large number of species are headed for catastrophe.
In the discussion with the Observer's chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley, Kerry said: "We are heading for catastrophe unless we respond to some life-threatening challenges very rapidly.
"I think we are headed for catastrophe," Christian Huard, the president of a large group representing French consumers, said last month.
The water-food-energy nexus is perilously tethered and the Lower Mekong Basin is headed for catastrophe if the region does not receive the holistic and urgent attention it requires to remain environmentally viable.
"It was part of the five-year plans, approved by the council of ministers and the Politburo," said Aleksandr Asarin, an expert at the Russian State Hydroproject Institute who angered his bosses by predicting, in 1964, that the sea was headed for catastrophe.
I point this out not to challenge the reality of global warming or the fact that it's caused in large part by humans, but because the discussion about climate change has turned into a nasty dustup, with one side arguing that we're headed for catastrophe and the other maintaining that it's all a hoax.
He also shares why he thinks the world is headed for catastrophe and what we can do to ensure that in the race between education and catastrophe, education wins.
Amid growing fears that the situation is heading for catastrophe, 70 technicians are still battling to cool reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi facility but non-essential personnel have been ordered to leave and the Kyodo news agency reported that radiation levels have become too high for staff to remain in control rooms.
