Ernest Callenbach's landmark work Ecotopia is perhaps less metaphysical in its musings, but is equally based on reclaiming the virtues of ecology and deploying its inherent lessons as a counter-balance to the forces of devastation.
Doctoring Freedom addresses health care from the time of slavery through the late nineteenth century, which allows the author to explain the changes that occurred as slavery collapsed (and with it the notion that slaveholders should care privately for the labor force) through the devastation of war, reconstruction, and the emergence of Jim Crow laws.
Fed by winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour, a wildfire resumed its path of devastation today, forcing the evacuation of as many as 25,000 people and destroying at least 260 homes but apparently not causing serious damage at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed.
A local school where 50 languages are currently spoken, he mentions almost in passing, was used in 1948 by Oswald Mosley to give a speech to supporters about "the threat of devastation from Oriental forces".
Rising waters forced the evacuation of many residents, and a scene of devastation greeted them upon their return.
During the grim first days of the crisis, the Self-Defense Forces were the face of the government amid scenes of devastation, and a lifeline for shocked survivors.
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.
When asked to describe how the tsunami disaster was unique, he replied: "Just the sheer force of what happened, and the total devastation... and the miracle conditions for anyone to have survived".
The wave of devastation has been moving south down the American continent, as drug crackdowns have taken force in Mexico.
Witnesses described scenes of devastation.
Unhappily, it brought the seeds of devastation.
