The same political class, cheered on by most of the media despite the self-destructive devastation that austerity has wreaked on the Eurozone, now demands hysterically that we make massive spending cuts.
Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) produced throughout the 2010 eruption were unusually destructive, causing near complete devastation across a 22 km2 swath of the densely populated southern flanks and casualties to the end of their runout at 15.5 km from the volcano.
I'm one of thousands of South Florida victims of a storm named Isaac that didn't qualify as a hurricane with a category number, but nevertheless qualified as a "5" in terms of the havoc and devastation its destructive rains left behind.
In their initial correspondence with Mr. Arthurs, members of the Kansai society drew parallels between the destructive 1995 earthquake in Kobe and the devastation of the terrorist attacks.
Thousands of America's farmers are facing the devastation of one of the most destructive droughts in history.
It is as if the storm and its destructive forces are now being rewound, not in a few moments of devastation, but over a span of two years.
Northern Petroleum will presumably not be involved in the sort of violence demonstrated by Plainview in the film, but the devastation they will wreak on this irreplaceable ancient woodland will be highly destructive.
This self destructive path has led to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Gulf oil spill, tar sands devastation, pipeline failures, impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and the destruction of ground water through hydraulic fracking, just to name a few.
Ironically, in the count of environmental devastation, the petition called Unocal "an incorrigible recidivist polluter" and "an engine of destructive greenhouse gases" whose actions are contributing to life-threatening climate change amounting to "ecocide".
I've never witnessed that first hand so it was very hard to watch the devastation of someone so capable, bright and so tuned in, while everything around them become so destructive.
Other work touches on destructive forms of stagnation: drought resulting from global warming in Adeniyi Odeleye's 2010 "Shifting Realities Series" and the continuing devastation of Nigeria's oil fields in Aderemi Adegbite's 2013 "Medicine After Death Suite".
