Synonyms for catastrophes
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1. List of paraphrases for "catastrophes":

   disasters, calamities, disaster

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1. Elizabeth Warren:

   To protect themselves and the economy from climate-driven catastrophes, large financial institutions must act quickly to address risks, i write to ask for more information about the risks caused by the climate crisis on the financial industry and your institution's practices, including what steps, if any, your institution is taking to adapt to mitigate these risks.

2. Anthony Summers:

   The fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.

3. Georges Clemenceau:

   War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

4. Pope Francis:

   The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world, we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.

5. Brian Fields:

   Earth-based catastrophes such as large-scale volcanism and global warming can destroy the ozone layer, too, but evidence for those is inconclusive for the time interval in question.