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- Dictionaryca·tas·tro·phe/kəˈtastrəfē/
noun
- 1. an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster: "a national economic catastrophe"
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3 days ago · Social scientist and energy policy expert, Benjamin K. Sovacool has reported that worldwide there have been 99 accidents at nuclear power plants from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define major ...
2 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
2 days ago · Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia. Industrial pollution is one of the consequences of operators ignoring their effect on the shared environment. The tragedy of the commons is a metaphoric label for a concept that is widely discussed, and criticised, in economics, ecology and other sciences.
2 days ago · The Cretaceous–Paleogene ( K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary(K–T)extinction, [b] was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
5 days ago · Catastrophism is the theory that, in the past, the Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.
3 days ago · The Paris Agreement set out to improve upon and replace the Kyoto Protocol, an earlier international treaty designed to curb the release of greenhouse gases. It entered into force on November 4, 2016, and has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 190 as of January 2021.
5 days ago · If you think about it, a catastrophe is a situation which won't get better or which will drastically alter your and your loved one's lives in a profoundly and perhaps chronically negative way. In contrast: Panic attacks end, usually within ten minutes. People get over panic attacks; you don't have a life sentence of panic.
