cataclysm

I'd definitely be happy dying here in a fiery cataclysm.

"It would be a totally self-inflicted cataclysm,” he said.

What cataclysm do you envision destroying life on Earth if we have the technology to survive on Mars?

One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of the cataclysm at ground zero both times.

We could have perfected cold fusion by then, or a major cataclysm could have decimated the human race and left us in a new ice age. I don't feel any more qualified to say what that year will be like than somebody in 1511 was to predict what we'd be doing nowadays.

Setting up this permanent monitoring infrastructure amounts to a cataclysm for our grandchildren.

This was an unmitigated disaster; a cataclysm; a miserable shit-show of Brobdingnagian proportions.

Yes, I think fears of deflationary currency are probably quite a bit less rational than fears of environmental cataclysm as long as society doesn't come to term with the fact that there are in fact physical limits to growth on some time scale.

Nothing against Rand or SEOmoz, and to be sure I'm sorry they had to go through the mess he describes, but if I were running a company with nearly $12 million in annual revenue and an 83% gross margin, it'd take a pretty serious cataclysm to crush my soul.

This is proposed as an alternative to oft-entertained future trajectories like an apocalyptic cataclysm or technological singularity.

I can't think of the name of the theory, but the general idea is that it would be very difficult to rebuild to our current level of technology after a cataclysm event because all of the easily reached surface resources required to bootstrap it have been picked clean.