Nobody wants to increase environmental destruction, poverty, cultural ADHD, or suicide.
The result is, according to Polanyi, phenomenal growth on the one hand, but also disastrous negative externalities in the form of environmental destruction, poverty, and cyclical monetary breakdowns.
"All this blood, death, poverty and destruction had to happen, just so [the opposition] would be convinced that this was their only choice!" Before the opposition agreed to attend Geneva, it had pushed for assurances from its backers and the UN that talks would focus on a transitional governing body – not a national unity government under Assad – in line with previous international agreements.
FOR a dozen years the figure of Slobodan Milosevic towered over the Balkans, leading it into war, destruction and poverty.
Dili today does not present a pretty picture, with a separate expatriate world superimposed on a scene of destruction and poverty.
As he puts it, "citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human-rights abuses, failing education systems and escalating violence," and more of them "have the freedom, time, wealth, health, exposure, social mobility and confidence" to do something about it.
Some are motivated negatively and see world government as the definitive solution to old and new human problems such as war and the development of weapons of mass destruction, global poverty and inequality, and environmental degradation.
A: To keep the charity going, to expand to different charities, to get youth more aware of everything that's going on, from mountaintop removal to rainforest destruction to poverty.
As if what they think and have to say is so much more significant than what our best scientists or scholars might have to say, or those who have struggled for decades for noble causes: an end to world poverty, war, destruction of the environment, or the promotion of democracy, justice and freedom for all.
I photographed people in seemingly hopeless situations, people stuck in a circle of poverty, destruction and pain.
