Life as lived by those who survive a global cataclysm.
And that makes for a relative low frequency of global cataclysm, Dr. Schultz said.
Now, threatened with global cataclysm, the nations seem to be making concessions.
Compared with the potential global cataclysm of true climate change, even the war in Iraq and the national debt pale.
The series tells the story of World War II from the perspective of "so-called ordinary Americans" who fought and lived through the global cataclysm.
In 2000, the "Second Impact", a global cataclysm, destroys most of Antarctica and leads to the deaths of half of all humanity.
Similar to the theme of lost continents is the theme of lost planets, planets thought to have existed during prehistory only to be later destroyed by a global cataclysm.
The intent of the Immortality Drive is to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.
He collected art that prefigured the global cataclysms".
A global cataclysm loomed, but so did a far more immediate threat to the assembled.