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How do we deal with our deepest differences, given the human propensity for conflict and the human genius at devising weapons of enormous destruction?
So instead of just growing destruction, we want to grow the things that we might enjoy, and someday the FDA will allow us to make French cheese.
And you look behind you, and there's destruction all around you.
But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
I was covering the war in Afghanistan, and I witnessed, as a reporter for Al Jazeera, the amount of suffering and destruction that emerged out of a war like that.
Would you like to see destruction?
For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction.
Not surprisingly, this destruction also endangers bonobo survival.
And if you do that, what you end up with is a cyber weapon of mass destruction.
For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction.
In the natural cycle of life and death, the creation and destruction that must happen continuously.
George Bush thought he was going to invade Iraq, find a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, liberate the people and bring democracy to the Middle East.
But in retrospect, the destruction of my self was so repetitive that I started to see a pattern.
I'll quote General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who says in a report to Congress that cyberattacks could be as powerful as weapons of mass destruction.
Similarly, if we'd had this talk 30 or 40 years ago, we would have seen how the rise of nuclear weapons, and the threat of mutually assured destruction they imply, prevents a direct fight between the two superpowers.
For those of us coming in, it means we must make sure we aren't inadvertently contributing to the destruction of community again, and to follow the lead of those who have been working on these problems for years.
However, what occurred to me was human-caused destruction, which was not only causing a significant portion of the destruction, but actually it was accelerating.
Because of this accelerated pace of destruction, it became clear to us that we needed to challenge ourselves and our partners to accelerate our work.
Behind the destruction, I found a soul of places.
If you look at the lens of public wealth as against the lens of private profits, you get a completely different answer, which is clearly conservation makes more sense, and not destruction.
His plots are all about destruction and secrecy, whereas my plots are about creation and openness.
The advent of the interconnectedness and of the weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
Mass destruction.
Once we call someone "other," "less than," "one of them" or "better than," believe me ... under the right condition, it's a short path to more destruction.
Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
Or, perhaps civilization carries with it the seeds of its own destruction through the inability to control the technologies it creates.
This kind of trafficking, in narcotics, in humans, in weapons, God forbid, in weapons of mass destruction, is part of the threat to the global commons.
Newscaster: There's a large path of destruction here in town.
He was out of town, but he raced back to the city, and raced down to the site of the destruction.
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