Word: cataclysmically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planet, and visits it every eon or so. In addition to the unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents and sudden snow, is the most vivid part of her report...
Happily, the authors of Energy and Security are more than doomsayers predicting an oil-based global cataclysm. In detailing how current energy tactics have actually exacerbated U.S. vulnerability to oil cut-offs, they recommend sweeping changes aimed at preventing and easing future energy shortfalls. Some proposals are more complex or expensive than the authors acknowledge, but they also seem great improvements over current backfiring U.S. strategies...
Better ennui than cataclysm, he concludes, and if the game must go on, better by the rules of SALT...
Even organizing a neighborhood, though, requires some interest on the part of the neighbors, an interest the opiate of short-term economic gain will dull. And anyway, the organizers will recognize soon enough that improving one corner of Cambridge while the country, and with it the world, heads toward cataclysm is like serving drinks aboard a 747 as it nosedives into the Pacific. When that realization dawns, survivalists won't be the only ones buying guns. Americans believe blissfully that political violence is impossible here, overlooking the wave of bombings that rocked this country in the late 1960s. Backed...
...talk Government reorganization and revenue sharing. His mind probes beyond the merely visible. If the Soviet moves in Afghanistan are unopposed, that confirms to the men in the Politburo that they can invade the soft spots of the free world with impunity. If that attitude survives these months, then cataclysm lies ahead. Carter must move on instinct, something he has avoided for three years...