If we don’t act now, the harm that we are doing to the planet will be irreversible.
Indra Nooyi: Why I’m optimistic about business’s role in solving climate change|jakemeth|October 9, 2020|Fortune
For the past two years, we’ve partnered with Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, to ship vaccines with sensors that can detect breaks in the cold chain before they lead to irreversible damage.
Once a COVID-19 vaccine is discovered, the hard part begins|jakemeth|September 17, 2020|Fortune
The always capricious dynamic between advertisers and agencies is going through its latest set of twists and turns as both groups experience irreversible changes to their respective businesses caused by the coronavirus crisis.
Marketers ‘looking to feel confident’: the coronavirus causing irreversible changes to the advertiser-agency dynamic|Seb Joseph|August 20, 2020|Digiday
That would create an irreversible cycle wherein the climate is beyond our control.
The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL|Jack Holmes|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now, a new mouthpiece may help protect players from irreversible harm.
This Mouthpiece Will Save Football Players’ Brains|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If I had my wish, football would suffer a sudden and irreversible drop in popularity.
Why I’ll Never Let My Kids Play Football|Russell Saunders|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Echoing Hugo Chavez, they have vowed to make his revolution “irreversible.”
Venezuela Burns, Body Count Rises|Juan Nagel|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For the populations of tiny island nations like Kiribati, the threat is real and near – and any impacts would be irreversible.
Best Business Longreads|William O’Connor|November 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In the course of the last hundred years, Goldoni has secured a signal and irreversible victory over his rival.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi
The dictating angels hover over the heads of the gifted maids, one of whom writes with rapid pen the irreversible decrees of Fate.
Walks in Rome|Augustus J.C. Hare
The closing of the National Laboratories means an irreversible change in our position.
The Unlearned|Raymond F. Jones
It is not a thing of compacts, bound together by promises and paper, but is itself a law of nature as irreversible as any other.
Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments|Various
The victory of pure doctrine and strict church order, though perhaps not exactly glorious, was triumphant and irreversible.
A History of American Christianity|Leonard Woolsey Bacon
British Dictionary definitions for irreversible
irreversible
/ (ˌɪrɪˈvɜːsəbəl) /
adjective
not able to be reversedthe irreversible flow of time
not able to be revoked or repealed; irrevocable
chemphysicscapable of changing or producing a change in one direction onlyan irreversible reaction
thermodynamics(of a change, process, etc) occurring through a number of intermediate states that are not all in thermodynamic equilibrium