According to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, de-industrialization has inflicted US $254.7 billion in economic damage on Syria.
Increasingly, they seem to want to tell us how to live and think, or inflict upon us the strictures they choose to impose upon themselves.
Another possible reason is that ETI might in fact save us from horrors equal to the worst they might inflict on us.
On paper it sounds like the kind of relentlessly miserable tale that Sundance occasionally chooses to inflict upon us.
An Edwardian joke, I think; at least it was one that my Edwardian-vintage father would inflict on us from time to time.
I was to understand that the idea of a ceremony, carried on in the presence of others whose ideas he did not respect, and who would inflict on us all that snickering and simpering, was more than he was prepared to put up with.
"In respect of the newly valuable Falkland Islands and their oil fields, because of these and other cuts, for the next 10 years at least, Argentina is practically invited to inflict on us a national humiliation on the scale of the loss of Singapore — one from which British prestige, let alone the administration in power at the time, might never recover," the letter said.
But we all have information stored on computers connected to the internet that we don't want revealed, information secured by encryption methods we don't fully understand, information that may be sought by hackers who then decide what moral codes we've breached and what punishment to inflict upon us.
From Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho reading a story about Sean Penn getting his drug supplier arrested to Enright using her incisive wit to talk about aid workers one-upping her in Honduras, the readings never shied away from exploring the unreality drugs inflict on us all.
But now they are being invited to forget those torrid scenes and forge a new, historic agreement on the basis that whatever damage fractious governments can do to their own reputations during major international meetings will be as nothing to the damage that climate change is likely to inflict on us all.
