Our onward march is marked by devastation.
On the ground once marked by devastation, a new city is rising.
But it's also fun to revisit the original 1979 "Mad Max" and its '80s sequels "The Road Warrior" and "Beyond Thunderdome," to see the birth of Mel Gibson as a movie star and to marvel at how prescient Miller's vision of a future marked by environmental devastation and intense factionalism has turned out to be.
To steer away from an economic system marked by rising inequality, environmental devastation and a lack of accountability, we need to do what Keynes tried to do 70 years ago: imagine a different kind of Bretton Woods.
Vonnegut imagines a near future marked by ecological and cultural devastation, in which the only human endeavor uniting the world is a plan to launch a rocket ship full of semen to the Andromeda Galaxy, in the hope of creating a new race.
This week marked six months since the earthquake hit my country Haiti, bringing devastation and worsening the already bad conditions there.
The first half of the 20th century was marked by two world wars that caused enormous physical and economic destruction in Europe and a Great Depression that wrought economic devastation in both Europe and the United States.
The Bandung Conference held in the aftermath of the World War II, was marked by the commitment to promote an alternative to the dominant system that created devastation by war and continued the quest to rebuild itself while continuing the exploitation of dominated people.
In the decades that followed, civilians experienced devastation caused by conflicts that played out completely differently to the two world wars – marked by proxy conflicts and fierce battles of ideology fought in the name of religion or regime change.
While the disaster marked the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, the greater tragedy was that much of the devastation was preventable.
Ramirez's cartoon marking 20 years of human devastation by the AIDS virus was, bar none, the most callous, cruel and vicious doodle I've seen beyond the graffiti-smeared stalls of filthy public restrooms.
