Word: alarmism
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...changed Gore for the better. He dedicated himself to a larger cause, doing everything in his power to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, and that decision helped transform the way Americans think about global warming and carried Gore to a new state of grace. So now the question becomes, How will he choose to spend all the capital he has accumulated? No wonder friends, party elders, moneymen and green leaders are still trying to talk him into running. "We have dug ourselves into a 20-ft. hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder...
...story lines. Everything in this movie seems to have been made on a soundstage and, for reasons best known to the director, his Paris is caught in a perpetual blizzard; it goes on for the several days consumed by the plot, yet it never seems to accumulate or alarm any of the film's characters. It must be symbolic, but of what, precisely, Resnais never hints...
...environment and being on the left.” After his talk, Florenz fielded questions from a young supporter of activist Lyndon LaRouche, an instructor from Boston University, and graduate students from MIT and the Kennedy School of Government. Questions ranged from the possibility that the climate crisis alarm is a hoax, to a query about the environmental impact of the higher speed limits in Germany, to the issue of how to make environmental protection a nonpartisan issue. Blackbourn said that he was delighted to co-sponsor an event with the Center for the Environment. “I will...
Globalization has brought Americans tech support from India, Chinese-made Christmas lights, T-shirts from Bangladesh and those inexpensive Aussie wines, but U.S. conservationists are sounding the alarm that global trade is a two-way street that threatens American wildlife - thanks to rising economic tides in Asia and the fast and easy import-export routes between China...
...front quarter of my head begins to pound and throb," he says. In extreme cases, he vomits violently every 20minutes. His senses of smell and hearing become agonizingly acute. "All I want to hear is gentle white noise at most and no movement, please. If there's a car alarm that goes off nearby, it's unbearable...