For example, solving one issue, such as energy security, with the wrong solution will have devastating impacts on our environment, and such impacts will in-turn have devastating impacts on our economic and social well-being.
However, oil companies have been encroaching for decades, often with devastating impacts.
More decisively callous actions follow, with devastating impacts on all concerned.
While villages I observe will have faced devastating impacts from floods, many have already developed ways to adapt.
Ellen Roberts, coordinator of the Mackay Conservation Group, said Hunt had failed the Australian people by ignoring the "devastating" impacts of the mine.
She wrote: "As was to be expected, I often heard some heartbreaking stories about lives that had been torn apart, with devastating impacts for all involved, particularly children.
Hurricanes leave devastating impacts on property and people in the coastal states.
Availability of arsenic in waterbodies has posed devastating impacts to terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
But when you're a company as big as Google, even minor changes like this can have large, even devastating, impacts in niche communities.
Biofilms have devastating impacts on many industries such as increased fuel consumption and damage to surfaces in maritime industries.
The aftermath of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the second oil crisis (1979) had devastating impacts on India's balance of payments.
