After overreaching themselves with nearly catastrophic consequences, opposition forces seem to be operating with a bit more discipline and listening to the advice of Libyan army defectors.
The failure of the talks could have catastrophic consequences.
Early Tuesday morning, the frightening news came that Japan was facing the full meltdown of crippled reactors at a nuclear power station - with unknown and potentially catastrophic consequences.
They cancelled the second round of elections, with catastrophic consequences.
The question boils down to the accumulating impacts of daily incremental pollution from burning coal or the small risk but catastrophic consequences of even one nuclear meltdown.
