Re "When All Isn't Enough to Stop a Catastrophe" (March 29): I was surprised that more discussion was not given to the inherent risks of nuclear plants' spent fuel pools.
"And we don't want only to stop the catastrophe, the bad medicine," he adds, referring to the recession-inducing austerity cuts Greece has applied in return for rescue loans from its "troika" of creditors at the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.
"NOOOOOOO!" I cried out, practically tumbling downstairs in the hope that I could somehow stop the catastrophe.
Donald Trump being president would be terrible for our country in a thousand different ways, and being part of the fight to stop that catastrophe from happening will be a great honor.
It's understandable why no one would want or even be able to believe that neither the most powerful nation in world history nor one of the biggest, richest companies in world history would be so powerless to stop a catastrophe that has been happening for over a month right before our eyes (and now streaming live 24 hours a day).
They joke around about it (watch - they will say things like, "No!" as they make an exaggerated attempt to stop the catastrophe), they even make fun of themselves (D'oh! I'm pathetic!"), and they immediately accept that they're human, and mistakes happen ("Man - I hate when that happens").
I couldn't stop conjuring catastrophes, political and otherwise.
Firms are now concerned about disaster-induced losses, since, in this fictional rendering, insurance companies stopped offering catastrophe coverage after 2001.
"I've spent the last 60 or 70 years hearing about this disaster or that disaster – and 'how can we stop this further catastrophe happening?' and 'we're losing this species, we're losing much that is so precious'..
The claim of this lobby's complicity in murder is not exaggerated or hysterical but, by now, quite simple and precise: when you refuse to act to stop a social catastrophe from happening, you are responsible for the consequences of the social catastrophe.
