Most serious, they may have disastrously miscalculated the speed of the energy transition, leaving them with oceans of stranded oil if demand collapses.
According to computer simulations, even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content, from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance-could disrupt the cycle disastrously.
In November 1851, Vanderbilt's third Nicaragua voyage nearly ended disastrously when a British warship fired warning shots, forcing him to pay a port fee.
England resented the presence of this " traitor" in Paris, and Louis had to be cautious about plunging into another war that might also end disastrously.
Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
The first, a club promotion company, which started out great and kind of fizzled, and the second, a live music series which opened triumphantly and then ended disastrously.