Word: doomsday
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...Alarmism—the environmental movement’s basic strategy—has led to this dead end. Since Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the movement has been dominated by doomsday scenarios. Even on the first Earth Day in 1970, biologist George Wald predicted that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken.” Fortunately, such apocalyptic forecasts have repeatedly proven to be wrong...
...million Number of seeds, representing all of the world's known crop varieties, to be safeguarded in a "doomsday vault" on a remote Arctic island 75% Estimated proportion of crop species believed to have been lost since...
Feeling at times like the angel of doomsday, I travel the country asking men and women: Are you saving enough money? Are you properly invested? Do you have a number in mind--the amount you'll need to see you through inflation, health-care costs, the inevitable surprises that will visit your next 30 years? Answers take the form of blank stares or silence, as if to say, "Please, can't we talk about something else...
Last fall I attended one of Kinder's three-day workshops, a memorable stop on the angel-of-doomsday tour. There, in a room filled with 90 straight-laced financial advisers, Kinder staged his signature training exercise: the Three Big Questions. Kinder claims that he asks himself these questions several times a year as a way of staying focused on his personal priorities...
...into the Himalayas, killing more than 73,000 people in Pakistan. Batagram was one of the worst-hit towns. That morning, Khan had strolled up a dirt path to visit his mother's grave when the force of the quake hurled him to his knees. "I thought it was doomsday, that the earth would open and swallow me up," he says. "The houses on the ridge--they were exploding...