Word: doomsdays
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...portraits of doomsday add fuel to the arms debate...
...doomsday headlines (SUNBELT MOVING NORTH, WARMING SPELLS DISASTER) were unduly alarmist, and much of the information was well known to scientists. But last week a media brouhaha was triggered by new studies from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Academy of Sciences. Both groups agreed on a startling prognosis: the earth is warming up from all the carbon dioxide being spilled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, and worse, the first effects of the climatic changes could be felt as early as the 1990s...
...lived with it, the alternative being the threat of planetary death. The image of such global cessation was arresting. So the unthinkable came to be not only thinkable but endlessly and eloquently conjured, by cold statistics, projections of megadeaths, and a procession of movie fantasies. An entire rhetoric of doomsday burgeoned, evoking the horror that was imminent, the last flash tomorrow. But in burgeoning, it had the ironic effect of becoming itself a convention, and thus routine...
...distortions begin with the almost exclusive analytic attention given to the possibility of nuclear war in Europe. a typical "Euroshima" doomsday scenario starts with the Soviet Union attacking West Germany. But in reality, the likely site of superpower confrontation is not Europe but somewhere in what has come to be known as the third World...
Brazil stumbled into its plight through the type of doomsday scenario that now haunts the world financial community. The crunch began in September, when small-and medium-size banks in the U.S. and elsewhere refused to increase their Latin American loans in the wake of Mexico's brush with bankruptcy. At the time, Brazil, like Mexico, was borrowing from well over 1,000 banks around the world. In Brazil's case, the length of the list was largely a vote of confidence in the nation's financial management, which was considered to be among the best...