The magnitude of the catastrophe requires a commensurate response from the global community.

Such an unprecedented global catastrophe has required a global response, and indeed, in the days and weeks which have followed the tsunami, we have all witnessed and participated in an unprecedented worldwide response.

The Catastrophe!

The Catastrophe!

It's a catastrophe.

What is the Catastrophe?

What is the Catastrophe?

So this is a catastrophe.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

The Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe

When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls

When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls

Sixty Years of the Palestinian Catastrophe

Then, when the Great Catastrophe comes

Then, when the Great Catastrophe comes

Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe.

Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe.

But when the Great Catastrophe comes,

But when the Great Catastrophe comes,

This is a catastrophe waiting to happen again.

What will show you what is the Catastrophe?

What will show you what is the Catastrophe?

Convened by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the massive refugee crisis triggered by Hitler s virulent anti Semitism, the Évian conference was a catastrophe. And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe s current migration crisis.

And she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a catastrophe.

Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure error rather than terror.

My roommate had a single story of Africa a single story of catastrophe.

But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.),

But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.),

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings.

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings.

The German Government's response to the tsunami catastrophe for which it pledged more than 650 million, plus another 650 million in private donations and Germany's commitment to the goals of the President Lula's September 2004 summit on fighting poverty and hunger are precisely examples of such efforts.

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate in their dwellings.

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate in their dwellings.

We Indonesians know too well the enormous suffering that a natural catastrophe can bring.

O People! Fear your Lord. The catastrophe of the Last Hour shall be terrible indeed

O People! Fear your Lord. The catastrophe of the Last Hour shall be terrible indeed

Malawi is praying for the people of that great nation to overcome that great catastrophe.

That of the firefighter as victim, sent without proper knowledge into an avoidable, man made catastrophe.

And even a tiny probability of catastrophe is unacceptable when the downside could be of global consequence.

It is encouraging to see that the international community has confronted this catastrophe in a true spirit of cooperation.

Response

Conspicuously, Haiti s Dominican neighbors were the first to gauge the magnitude of the problem and the global nature of the required solution. The Dominican government s decision to hold a summit on Haiti s future has the objective of securing the international community s ongoing commitment to Haiti, beyond the generous response to the catastrophe produced by the earthquake in January.

For example, rather than trying to regulate away problems, which probably won't work, if we could price into the cost of doing business, the cost of catastrophe, so that people who are doing things that had a higher cost of catastrophe would have to take insurance against that risk.

The threat we face is existential, Nasrallah said. We now have three options to expand the war and fight far more than we have fought in the last four years, to capitulate and be slaughtered, or to disperse throughout the world, walking humiliated and purposeless from catastrophe to catastrophe.

It's possible to assume, setting aside a possibility of catastrophe, that sooner or later we will develop all of these.