Yes—the word ‘global’ is a minimum necessary qualification for referring to catastrophes of the type we plausibly care about—and even then, it is not always clear that something like COVID-19 was too small an event to qualify.
Yes—the word ‘global’ is a minimum necessary qualification for referring to catastrophes of the type we plausibly care about—and even then, it is not always clear that something like COVID-19 was too small an event to qualify.