from : Powell who had gone to Indonesia right after 2004 and said you know I've been to war I've seen complete devastation I've seen it all and I've never seen anything like this and one ofthem one of my favorite statistics was in the book I had a something from the Journal of coastal engineering saying
With the magnitude of 6.9, it devastated the city, which was one of Japan's key ports. This devastation spread to the stock market. The Nikkei index plunged 1055 points.
I am a Hungarian Jew. The devastation of Hungarian Jews were the worst murdered of men, women, and children in the last days of the war. When Hitler was facing defeat, he brought the Holocaust to Hungary.
asks what if. What if a nuclear weapon exploded in a major American city, and no one can prove who was responsible? The devastation is horrifying. But even more alarming are the limited responses available to the United States government.
our own food production, our own technology stack, and we'll give a little bit of support to other countries to be more energy resilient or to be resilient to agricultural devastation , but we're definitely not going to let more migrants in. So it's a high sustainability for some places, but low migration scenario.
And as a result of all these calories, deaths from famine-- one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse-- which could strike any part of the world and bring devastation in its wake-- has become rare. Famines today occur not because of an inability to grow enough food, but the inability to get it to people in remote and war-torn regions.
And I thought, he's going to give me some esoteric practice or something. There's devastation and hopelessness.
So the first time Black Lives Matter is called a terrorist organization, there's two things that come up for me. The first one is devastation . Because, simply, I'm with these folks every single day.
improve the world especially given uh incredible inequalities of wealth given the ecological Devastation uh and so on I can uh kind of put the Litany of issues that need to need attending now what I would um want
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. But from that apparent devastation came life.
And I think that bodes well in the intro to your book in talking about suffering and talking about torture and talking about devastation of animals you said hope and you talked about that. And what are-- in doing all this research spending, all this time while you're running in this big organization-- what are one or two bright spots of just scintillating hope
So in fact, in another village I was in, something like out of 100 houses, only eight were left standing. So really extreme devastation throughout that whole part of the country. In some of the villages we visited, if you can imagine, a house like this-- of course, this is uninhabitable-- somebody has to pull it down.
So those are the two programs now. And between the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and then Hurricane Christie, I guess in the opposite order, we're facing a bit of a crisis with the Hudson rail tunnels.
Conversely, when LGBT people are rejected by their churches, by their families, that doesn't lead to the fruit of the Spirit, as the Bible describes it. It leads to profound devastation , isolation, harm, pain, suffering. And so that is kind of a better way, I've found, to approach the experience argument, is to put it in the context of Jesus' own teachings.
that the best possible way for the world to end would not be an asteroid strike or a nuclear war, because it would leave the world in tatters. You'd find devastation around you, and it would be very, very hard to reinstate farming when the fields themselves are poisoned, when there's radioactivity from the fallout. So the starting point for the thought experiment that I picked up on, the best possible way for the world to end
And the devastation was so extreme that they're still fleeing.
about ecological devastation and mathematics.
can try to stop this devastation and loss of life.
As much as I've seen devastation and brutality, I really have seen beauty.
And flying over Gombe and seeing the devastation with more people living there than the land could support.
We must take action now or devastation awaits right around the corner.
So obviously with the amazing devastation in Northern California with the fires lately, it's great to see that you were putting in your dues early on.
So we're seeing a devastation , when you cut down an acre of rainforest, like we're doing an acre per second, you're not just cutting down some trees.
crime because we don't see the devastation of the archaeological sites, they're not for the most part here.
i realized that actually the greatest devastation that faced these kids was the school
what they're witnessing now in terms of the devastation of their homes. They're counting the cost, they're considering what their future is, whether they can
And it painted a picture of just unbridled devastation , and struggle, and pain.
He wasn't there to watch on television the absolute devastation and the loss and the emotional feelings.
I've never felt so much fear and just devastation in trying to explain a happening to her.
There is always going to be some kind of devastation happening throughout the country, politically and with the people.
So we were going to see all this devastation , and he'd be asking me and really prodding me, trying to get me to show it.
And yet it can cause all of this devastation , and impact human history in such a profound way.
to take that responsibility to inflict that level of devastation on mankind in relation
But what was beautiful about it is also the devastation of it.
not at least be more prepared and have a better understanding of what's going on so that we have less of what's going on you know less of us less damage less devastation you know that's the big thing is really forewarned is forearmed it's like being prepared but let's have a little bit of preparation let's be I mean just in the last it's so funny
So, seeing the devastation of a tornado, I think, has a real impression on me.
All of us were suffering from shock and sorrow as the sole witnesses for the devastation around us.
Our feeds and our screens can sometimes feel like a continuous loop of devastation .
We had, before obviously all of the devastation that has occurred to Puerto Rico since 2017, which is the last recollection I can have of a normal life in Puerto
And instead, I felt a devastation like nothing I had ever experienced in my life up to that point.
by a quite large country mile, the devastation that one night of insufficient sleep will cause dwarfs those other three.
It's practically impossible to talk about one and not the other because of the devastation that our food choices are causing with over 40% of landmass going towards raising
that we've treated as unforeseen consequences on Earth that have led us to a devastation of our ability to cohabitate with this planet?
So it turns out that all those wide-area projections of a hurricane cause devastation .
and injuring hundreds. And the devastation is appalling.
But also, you don't realize the devastation that that causes.
After the Civil War, emerging from the devastation of the Civil War, we began to flex our muscles around the world stage, wanting to compete with the Brits who
on our planet. It's proof-- the devastation of living reefs is proof that global warming is here and now.
So in fact, there was economic devastation in Kentucky, Singapore, and the Philippines from logging that happened 15
So besides that, the other thing is the devastation of the oceans.