Among all the citizens of this overpopulated, chronically mismanaged desert country, they also have the hardest work ahead: They are inheriting limited land and water resources, environmental devastation born of unregulated development and inadequate housing owed to decades of clumsy or corrupt policies.
"We have saved Long Island Sound and its precious natural resources from the devastation of this huge floating factory," Mr. Blumenthal said.
Will it be climate devastation and resource shortages... or collective action to create more profitable, healthy, and sustainable companies, communities, and countries?
The dedication and hard work of so many partners toward recovery will help ensure that those who were impacted by the devastation have more resources and programs in place to help them recover and have a more hopeful future.
The negative aesthetics associated with manufacturing includes environmental devastation caused by resource extraction and pollution, and dismal working conditions of the factory workers, often in developing nations, who are forced to endure aesthetic deprivation, not to mention health and safety hazards.
The Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, may be one of the country's only resources to mitigate against the coming devastation.
Wakanda evokes a prelapsarian Africa, free of Western colonial devastation: the country's resources are unplundered, its chain of tradition is unbroken, its cultural heritage is fully realized, and its technological achievements embody both the country's material and intellectual resources.
PEER's staff is knowledgeable, organized and relentless in protecting federal employees' right to bring their conscience to work and speak out against unlawful or reckless devastation of our environmental resources and health.
Even before the wave of devastation in 1999, East Timor had few resources with which to build a nation.
Aside from huge territorial losses, the prolonged conflict exhausted the Byzantine state's resources, as it brought "anarchy to the cities and devastation to the countryside" (Alice-Mary Talbot).
