Word: apocalypticism
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I wanted to write a book that was intentionally not apocalyptic. Apocalypse means destruction and the whole world ends. That's kind of scary and depressing, and usually the people who read books like that are the ones who are already into that stuff [and want] to get more detail...
Plants would crack and pulverize cities and highways. Moose and wolves would return, and the forest would become dense again. Reading The World Without Us, you want to cheer at the springy resilience with which the earth bounces back from the damage humans inflicted on it. Global warming is our...
Apocalyptic pessimism may be the theme of these movies, but the hero is driven by a desperate optimism: the world's ending, so I have to go on an impossible journey to save someone dear to me. The idea is that you'll forget about the tens of millions who...
Repeatedly during the press conference, when pushed about the legitimacy of becoming the titular head of the PPP, Bhutto Zardari returned to an apocalyptic theme. "There was a moment of crisis," he said of his appointment. "Pakistan was burning. We needed to show a united front."
But it wasn't to be. Hours after her death, the country erupted in spasms of self-destruction. The Lyari slum, which had pinned its hopes on the return of a mother figure, descended into apocalyptic chaos. The streets were blackened with ash, and the burned-out skeletons of scores...