Meteorologists have pointed out that human factors, like weak infrastructure, high population density and poverty, contributed greatly to the level of devastation Haiyan brought on the Philippines.
He's currently working on a play for the National that he describes as "the most explicitly political play I've ever written… it's anti-nuclear, not from the point of view of the devastation nuclear can cause, but because there's actually no point in us owning warheads… that's the kind of political play that interests me, when it's got something to say that people haven't necessarily considered".
The second point, he continues, "is that a burglary causes all sorts of devastation, so is wrong in itself.
From that vantage point she surveyed the damage, gasping in shock at the scale of devastation.
I guess there is a point where the devastation of addiction, combined with the situation of people's lives – whether through poverty or crime and social isolation – and when those factors hook up they get really hard to stop, really, really hard to stop.
A very high number of points (more than 20%%) were also attributed to such processes as the construction of cell-phone towers and wind-power plants at the most exposed view-points, devastation of the natural structure of water bodies as well as the transformation of river valleys, and vanishing of features typical for rural architecture (Table 4, Column 5).
As you point out, the devastation of Haitian agriculture by drought, storms and floods comes on top of years of neglect of the rural areas.
Witnesses described scenes of devastation.
Unhappily, it brought the seeds of devastation.
