Sentence examples for the end of the planet from inspiring English sources

Worries about the end of the planet have shadowed nearly every high-energy experiment.

The chapters conclude with Hunter's late-life meditations, "trying to keep from a lip-smacking bitterness" as he imagines "the end of the planet as a hospitable home".

South of the Tropic of Cancer, where the Pacific meets the Gulf of California, were two untamed coasts graced by a few good hotels, a noble native fishing fleet and a growing clan of grizzled refugees from western civilization who had run out of road at the end of the planet's fourth longest peninsula.

Straws are killing sea turtles, shopping bags are taking centuries to break down, and disposable coffee cups may well be the end of the planet.

Her passion for exploring these desolate areas is driven by her desire to explore the unknown, and her enjoyment of the challenges, hardships, and risks of conducting science at the ends of the planet.

In the words of Sir Paul McCartney: "It seems madness that we are willing to go to the ends of the planet to find the last drops of oil when our best scientific minds are telling us we need to get off fossil fuels to give our children a future".

And despite a failed scheme to find "the gold at the end of the rainbow," the planet's richest poultry, Scrooge McDuck, saw his fortune soar to an estimated $10.9 billion on rising gold prices.

At the end of the film, our planet has succumbed to the domination of the alien "pod people", and all humanity is transformed into a glazed-eyed shambling mass.

With the human population expected to reach 9-10bn by the end of the century and the planet in the middle of its sixth mass extinction - this time due to human activity - the next few years are critical in maintaining anything near the current level of biodiversity.

"To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford.

His previous film, "Melancholia" (2011), chronicled the end of the world (a rogue planet wipes us out), something that he appeared to welcome, at least as a visually radiant experience.