In others, the question is rather how to use the natural order for the sake of human nourishment and security without pillaging its resources and so damaging its inner mechanisms for self-healing or self-correction.
The filmmaker has spent the better part of a decade developing the technology used in "Avatar," which is set on a distant moon under siege by humans determined to pillage its natural resources.
Foreign powers, successive leaders and an alphabet soup of rebel groups have all pillaged its rich natural resources.
India suffered nearly two centuries of subjugation by its British masters, and, in this era, it saw its treasures pillaged, its economy decimated, and its cultural values suppressed.
The see had been kept vacant since the death of Lanfranc in 1089, during which period the king had confiscated its revenues and pillaged its lands.
It is a Géricault of blood and rape, Some desert town despoiled, some caravan Pillaged, its people murdered to a man.
Depending on who you speak with, China's engagement in Africa is often described in extreme terms as either the best thing to happen to the continent in the post-colonial era or just the latest foreign predator coming to pillage Africa of its resources.
Ibrahim sent an envoy to Mani demanding its surrender or else he would pillage it.
This civil war was more a general uprising by disaffected youth in a country that was, and probably still is, being pillaged and its rich resources, including diamonds, being sold cheaply to line the pockets of corrupt politicians and the upper levels of the military.
The lack of transnational co-ordination is exploited by those who pillage resources from ivory to timber, to bird and lizard smuggling.
