The phrase "and its devastating effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the consequences or impact of a particular event, action, or phenomenon.
Example: "The study highlighted the importance of climate change awareness and its devastating effect on global ecosystems."
Alternatives: "and its harmful impact" or "and the severe consequences".
They've allowed sequestration – and its devastating effect on communities across the country – to continue.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and other European leaders expressed alarm over the dollar's decline and its devastating effect on Europe's exports.
It turns out that the bulk of that talk was about something else: her deportation to Auschwitz and its devastating effect on her emotional life.
Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) might be perceived as an influence on the storyline of Yates's next project, An Innocent Man (1989), starring Tom Selleck, which similarly told of wrongful imprisonment and its devastating effect on the victim and his family.
On the papal flight last week-end Benedict made a second allusion to the abuse scandal, and its devastating effect on the moral authority of the church and its pastors, describing the church as the body of Jesus Christ "wounded by our sins".
The decline in housing prices and its devastating effect on millions of Americans has been all over the front pages since the middle of last year.
Given the growing evidence of postpartum depression and its devastating effects, effective childbirth psychoeducation programme to promote maternal role competence, psychological well-being and prevent postpartum depression is essential and of an urgent priority.
Arthur W. Galston, a Yale plant biologist who did early research that helped lead to the herbicide Agent Orange, then helped raise awareness of the military's use of it in Vietnam in the 1960s and its devastating effects on river ecosystems, died on June 15 in Hamden, Conn.
"The vast majority of Chicago middle school students are surely aware of the reality of violence and its devastating effects on people of all ages.
