'planetary emergency' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a global crisis that is caused by environmental or ecological issues. For example, "Scientists are warning that if governments do not take decisive action to address climate change, we may soon find ourselves facing a planetary emergency."
"It truly is a planetary emergency: we have to respond quickly.
"Since we face a true planetary emergency, we have to give the planet a P.R. agent".
"The scientific community realizes that we have a planetary emergency," Dr. Hansen said.
In fact, I believe we can rightly call the situation we're in right now an emergency – an unprecedented planetary emergency.
Referring to the urgency of the "planetary emergency", he urged his audience to take their own action to combat climate change.
He tells us that we are facing "an unprecedented planetary emergency" and, under his calm exterior, you sense a concealed fury at our failure to address the crisis.
In the past few years the World Federation of Scientists, he writes, added plastic contamination to its list of planetary emergencies.
Claude Turmes, a long-serving Green MEP Luxembourg, blames the austerity after the 2008 financial crash: "There have been less front pages about planetary emergencies and more on unemployment, which strengthens the parties with electorates that compete with the Greens – the far left and Social Democrats".
504 pp. ISBN: 1-420-04487-7, $249.95 International SemiNuclearNuclear War and Planetary Emergencies: 36th Session R. Ragaini, ed.
Developing resilience on personal, organisational and planetary levels is not only imperative at this time of global emergency, it will also lead to a deeper experience of personal wellbeing, to the harvesting of collective intelligence and wisdom, and to organisations starting to articulate and live their planetary purpose.
The weak short term target from the US is angering those who are claiming that this will not help alleviate the planetary "climate emergency" we face.
