0 an event that causes a lot of destruction, or a sudden, violent change
1 an extremely destructive event or violent change:
environmental/natural cataclysms
In the existing orthodoxy, settler farming developed along a gradual, cataclysm-free road to capitalist agriculture.
Then followed a comparatively long hiatus due to completely understandable causes resulting from the sociopolitical cataclysms.
Emotions may thus carry the intelligence of cataclysm, even if conscious memory is inoperative.
A revolutionary cataclysm on the scale of 1789 could not be discounted.
The story ends with the cataclysm which began this subchapter.
It was a problem to solve, but it was no cataclysm.
Who knows that it might not be yet another passing phase, another short period of change and prosperity before the next cataclysm?
Did we need this cataclysm to happen, which was compared with climate change by someone who spoke before me?
