"Justifiable" wars, with all the unfortunate "collateral damage" of incalculable property destruction and the deaths of innocent people, may often seem to be the last and necessary resort, yet wars and violence have never been sufficient to eradicate evil.
Yet, emerging pathogens often inflict incalculable devastation to humanity.
Despite such widespread destruction — and an incalculable number of deaths — almost no one on Avenue Poupelard seems to let himself cry, not even the children.
Destruction "culturally speaking an incalculable loss" - Nepali Times editor Kunda Dixit.
Quite apart from death and destruction, the global economic impact would be incalculable.
The trauma and devastation of war is incalculable.
The destruction caused by apartheid on our sub-continent is incalculable.
One senior official described the destruction to the island's banana, rice, and sugar crops as "incalculable".
Yet to hear Mooney tell it, all this money is pouring into a technology filled with "incalculable risks," including health and environmental problems and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
A written statement from the jury's chairman, Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, said the winning design "has made the gaping voids left by the towers' destruction the primary symbol of loss," resulting in "a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration".
As long as we are conscious of this truth, while not being speechless and indifferent to the monstrousness and horror of the destruction of our civilizational past, we have a chance to save the idea of humanity from the incalculable evil that human beings are capable of bringing about.
