The phrase "and its devastating impact" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the negative consequences or effects of a particular event, action, or situation.
Example: "The report highlighted the environmental crisis and its devastating impact on wildlife populations."
Alternatives: "and the severe consequences" or "and its harmful effects".
It ignores the abuse and its devastating impact, silences victims and shifts the blame towards, in his words, "feminists" and other assorted lefties.
They hurt their arguments by their failure to explicitly recognize the existence of serious mental illness and its devastating impact on those who have it.
What is not in dispute is gun violence's pervasiveness and its devastating impact on children.
They offered a detailed, firsthand view of the judiciary's "unprecedented financial crisis" and its "devastating impact on court operations nationwide".
Not since "Nashville" or maybe even "The Godfather" has Hollywood turned out an epic as resonant as Steven Soderbergh's densely layered study of the Mexican drug trade and its devastating impact on the United States.
In the fight against diabetes and its devastating impact, more public education about risk factors must be complemented by retinal screenings during health checks for early detection and treatment.
On the heels of a dire government report published last month about climate change and its devastating impacts, many cities and states are scrambling to find ways to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten their air quality, not to mention their economies.
AIDS is the subject of a special conference at the United Nations next week, when participants discuss targets and timetables for trying to contain the condition and reducing its devastating impact.
Globalisation is both midwife to the spread of the disease, as modern travel facilitates rapid dissemination of HIV infection across national borders, and, through concerted global action, triumphant conqueror over its devastating impact and expansion.
"The commission believes that the military culture created by such policy priorities may have been a factor contributing to the decision to unleash massive firepower in Rafah and Shuja'iya, in utter disregard of its devastating impact on the civilian population.
