"For me, it is painful to see this wilderness disappear — and it is useless, actually, because nobody is profiting from the disappearance," he said.
Not everyone agrees, of course, that society would benefit from the disappearance of governments.
The actions stem from the disappearance of an opposition leader last month.
The problem centres on Najib Razak, the prime minister, who is alleged to have benefited from the disappearance of $3.5bn from a state-owned investment company called 1MDB.
After moving its headquarters to New York, Jefferies has picked up the pieces from the disappearance of all sorts of Wall Street names, from Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenretteto Bear Stearns.
Do they think the one million people in the Bolivian city El Alto, who face increasingly chronic water shortages from the disappearance of glaciers, have low expectations?
"For me, it is painful to see this wilderness disappear and it is useless, actually, because nobody is profiting from the disappearance," he said.
The late 1980's opened an era of disasters, from the disappearance of the Soviet bloc, whose countries were North Korea's main economic partners, to a series of catastrophic famines brought on by crop failures, droughts and flooding.
The president continued to face political fallout from the disappearance in September 2000 of dissident journalist Georgy Gongadze who had been investigating Lazarenko and from recordings that allegedly had captured Kuchma's voice sanctioning Gongadze's elimination.
Grant County is in the "timber belt", an area stretching from northern California to Washington which has suffered from the disappearance of logging and milling jobs over the last four decades.
