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Munger coined the term “febezzle,” or “functionally equivalent bezzle,” to describe the wealth that exists in the interval between the creation and the
destruction
of the illusion.
Indeed, the "creative
destruction"
that generates unacceptable risk to individuals is poised to deliver the means for tempering these same risks.
Agriculture, predominantly subsistence farming, employs over 60% of the African workforce, implying widespread
destruction
of livelihoods, to say nothing of increased food insecurity as crops are disrupted.
In fact, research by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change strongly suggests that a business-as-usual approach would lead to an era of irreversible environmental
destruction
that would preclude economic growth.
Terrorism aimed at the
destruction
of the liberal order is a test of that order.
By contrast, Germany – where the
destruction
of both Poland and European Jewry took shape – has become a land of promise and opportunity for Israeli youth.
Recent US-Russian dialogues have addressed ways to move from a world characterized by mutually assured
destruction
to one based on mutually assured stability.
But I agree with Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn that it is not wise to focus on teaching financiers lessons about moral hazard when doing so risks collateral damage in the form of the
destruction
of millions of jobs.
The agreement’s focus should be the business environment, allowing the forces of creative
destruction
to lay down the foundation for a sustainable recovery.
Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the capacity for “assured destruction” – that is, the ability to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.
In the North is a state that can best be described as a prison camp, run by a hereditary despotic leader whose regime – most politely described as a cult – is pursuing an unrelenting drive to develop weapons of mass
destruction.
It is important to signal that opposition to the use of any weapon of mass
destruction
is both deep and broad.
Destruction
of these precious natural environments generates international ills.
Consider climate change: few people realize that tropical forest
destruction
accounts for 20% of overall carbon emissions – more than the world’s cars, trucks, and airplanes combined.
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and
destruction
on all sides of this enduring conflict.
But a more cynical view permeates populist logic, namely that in its excessive adherence to globalism, the US has sown the seeds of its own political and economic
destruction.
A second cause for worry is that the world is poised to enter a new nuclear age that threatens to be even more dangerous and expensive than the Cold War era of mutually assured
destruction
(MAD).
Hudbay Minerals is being sued over an episode of mass rape and property
destruction
in Guatemala, after soldiers and people claiming to be security officials from the company that owned a local mine arrived in a small village with orders to evict its residents.
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently described climate change as “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” warning of “a tipping-point of no return.”
Why do local politicians, tree lovers all, allow yet more forest
destruction?
Moreover, like the Middle East, Asia is home to an uncontrolled arms race that includes both conventional capabilities and weapons of mass
destruction.
If Iraq's occupation gives impetus to legal challenges that free Africans from the burden of odious debts, then the war will have succeeded in dismantling at least one weapon of mass
destruction.
Finally, the world faces many serious challenges, ranging from the need to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed conflicts.
Trump’s policies embody mean-spirited priorities that are widely backed by the Republican Party in the US Congress: slash taxes for the rich at the expense of programs to help the poor and working class; increase military spending at the expense of diplomacy; and allow for the
destruction
of the environment in the name of “deregulation.”
Such is the grim logic of mutually assured
destruction.
The term “cyber attack”covers a wide variety of actions, ranging from simple probes to defacing Web sites, denial of service, espionage, and
destruction.
Major states with elaborate technical and human resources could, in principle, create massive disruption and physical
destruction
through cyber attacks on military and civilian targets.
But at the UNGA this year, many attendees felt as though they were present at the
destruction
of that world.
No other country in the past half-century has suffered so heavy a toll in human lives and physical
destruction.
After the
destruction
that the Assad regime has wrought, there is no other way forward.
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