Collocations with catastrophe

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environmental catastrophe
Forecasts of potential environmental catastrophe have a long and celebrated tradition.
financial catastrophe
Furthermore, the diversity also reduces income variability and the risk of financial catastrophe.
humanitarian catastrophe
Unfortunately, it is all too obvious that, given that winter is approaching, we are heading for a humanitarian catastrophe, unless the situation changes soon.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
impending catastrophe
There is still time to prevent the impending catastrophe with a careful strategy and targeted expenditure.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
major catastrophe
These risks may vary substantially over the years and can be particularly high when there is a major catastrophe resulting in multiple deaths.
natural catastrophe
A natural catastrophe made him see the violent dynamics of history behind the mask of a civil society.
nuclear catastrophe
In these tales there is often an agency of change, such as a nuclear catastrophe, which leads to the change of human into non-human.
terrible catastrophe
To bring the two back to reality, a terrible catastrophe is called for.
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