Word: apocalypticism
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Roubini has been particularly apocalyptic, but given how things have gone in the world economy over the past few weeks, it's worth listening to this prophet of doom. Maybe things aren't as dire as he says. But maybe only the prospect of global catastrophe can compel world leaders...
Environmentalists are often accused - not always unfairly - of overplaying the fear card. With apocalyptic references to melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and widespread species extinction, the driving message of environmentalism is that the future is doomed, unless we act now to save it.
Although The New York Times quoted one trader as saying that “you felt like the world was unraveling” and another as claiming that “it felt like there was no ground beneath your feet” last week, bankruptcies are sometimes as inevitable...
And then there’s the collider itself. Statistics about it don’t even sound real. Particles will reach 99.9999991 percent of light speed. Temperatures can drop to 456.25 degrees below zero. We’ll find the “God Particle!” (Not...
In America, the idea of modern genocide is a surreal collage—distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya?...