His longer-term achievement was to trigger the founding of the Television Trust for the Environment (now TVE), which produces documentaries about the human and political causes of devastation to the natural world.
The shape and location of the crater indicate further causes of devastation in addition to the dust cloud.
Winds of more than 100mph were recorded as Storm Gertrude battered large parts of the UK, causing a trail of devastation which left thousands of homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted.
In the year since the fall of Lehman Brothers, we see that such misbehavior was a prime cause of the economic devastation that has followed.
Evangelist Pat Robertson, however, while not denying the natural causes of the earthquake, explained that the ultimate cause of the devastation in Haiti was that its people "swore a pact to the devil" in the eighteenth century (Anonymous 2010)—equating the ultimate cause for the earthquake with some type of supernatural, here diabolical, causation.
In exploring the cause of such devastation, he discovered that volcanologists had been trying to locate the site of this massive volcano.
The major cause of the devastation in the Ninth Ward and other areas of New Orleans was a result of the faulty design, construction and neglect of the levee system by the Army Corps of Engineers.
With recovery efforts now over, authorities have focused on the cause of the devastation.
They have the potential to cause a great deal of devastation and destruction, and there's still a great deal that we don't know or don't understand about them.
Earlier in the day, the French FM toured the quake-hit town of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan adminsitered Kashmir, in order to gain an idea of devastation caused by the earthquake.
The second point, he continues, "is that a burglary causes all sorts of devastation, so is wrong in itself.
