And every time a corporation poisons our atmosphere (with this year's villainous cameo coming courtesy of the car manufacturer Volkswagen), they are doing something else that is just as destructive: poisoning the well of public opinion.
Yet for the temperance crusaders, it was nothing less than blasphemous that their Savior would have mandated the use of so destructive a poison.
Why start again a destructive habit that poison your body, put in jeopardy your health and job?
But in doing so, he had created a destructive meme that poisons interfaith relations to this day.
Pinker dismisses the role of nuclear weapons on the grounds that the use of other weapons of mass destruction such as poison gas has not prevented war in the past; but nuclear bombs are incomparably more destructive.
The turmoil in neighbouring Syria, where sectarian tensions starkly mirror those flaring up in Iraq (on an even more destructive scale), is spreading its poison insidiously across the region.
Furthermore, this shark's inshore habitat renders it susceptible to habitat degradation, destructive fishing practices (e.g. poisons and explosives, especially prevalent off Indonesia and the Philippines), and human harassment.
They are also threatened by the degradation of their coral reef habitat by human development, and by destructive fishing practices such as dynamiting or poisoning.
Collect 3000 dollars (2153 euros) if you are going to sell destructive devices that may include explosives, missiles, or poison gas.
"Courts should not intervene where there is a robust political debate because doing so poisons the political well, imposing a destructive anti-majoritarian constitutional ruling on a vigorous debate," he said.
They have survived one of the largest earthquakes in modern history and a massively destructive tsunami, and they are fearful about possible radiation poisoning from damaged nuclear reactors.
