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The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton
destruction
is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.
Stalin thrived on the barbaric forced industrialization that planted the seeds of the communist system’s
destruction.
Schumpeter argued that a capitalist economy develops through unceasing
destruction
of old relationships.
Internet adoption reaches critical mass, changing how business is conducted and creating billion-dollar markets for digital goods and services – and causing massive “creative destruction.”
But, over time, so-called “mutual assured destruction” became an increasingly abstract concept.
Can we ever forget September 11, 2001, the start of a bloody century in which the mystical force of hatred and
destruction
has recovered its strength?
That experience has been repeated throughout recorded history, and it should inform our response to the
destruction
of libraries and schools in Syria.
His abysmal human rights record remains, but the flamboyant “Guide of the Revolution” ceased flirting with weapons of mass
destruction
and global terrorism in exchange for the end of sanctions and international rehabilitation.
Conflict between nuclear states would unleash
destruction
so incomprehensible that, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a humanitarian response would be impossible.
For more than seven decades, leaders of nuclear-armed states have relied on an unstable compound of fear and luck to keep their populations safe from total
destruction.
Bush invaded Iraq ostensibly to remove Saddam Hussein’s capacity to use weapons of mass
destruction
and, in the process, to change the regime.
We share a commitment to resolving international issues through political means, and both sides have already played a constructive role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction.
As extreme weather events continue to multiply, large-scale destruction, migration, and conflict will become endemic.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we are faced with a choice between
destruction
and the status quo.
In such a setting, influence becomes the sole domain of the populists, because only they can effect change – and only through
destruction.
Sufis under AttackNEW YORK – In 2001, Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered the
destruction
of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two sixth-century statues carved into the side of a cliff in central Afghanistan.
At the same time, the methane-producing cattle population has risen to 1.4 billion, contributing to the increasing rate of
destruction
of tropical rainforests, which releases carbon dioxide and contributes to faster species extinction.
Similar
destruction
of the environment still takes place in some Third World countries where local rights - property rights or the right to demonstrate or organize protests - are trampled on.
In this sense, East Asia’s economies have embraced the process of “creative destruction” described by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, whereby the economic structure is continually revolutionized from within.
My Plan to Drop the BombNEW YORK – The
destruction
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an end and a beginning.
The close of the Second World War ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured
destruction.
Finally, I am urging progress in eliminating other weapons of mass
destruction
and limiting missiles, space weapons and conventional arms — all of which are needed for a nuclear-weapon-free world.
9/11 remains the date that has come to signify modern terrorism in all of its terrible capacity to cause death and
destruction.
Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great magnitude.
Brazil has already had an uptick in such fires – and fire-related
destruction
– owing to the expansion of agriculture, weaker oversight and surveillance, and the dismantling of fire brigades.
At a time of growing concern about climate change, Europeans should be made aware of the long-term
destruction
done to a precious and fragile habitat for the sake of a short-term high.
But, again, liquidity provision alone – without policies to restore growth soon – would merely delay, not prevent, the breakup of the monetary union, ultimately taking down the economic/trade union and leading to the
destruction
of the single market.
Large-scale creative
destruction
will root out inefficiencies and vault China to a new echelon of global competitiveness.
But if the human capacity for
destruction
knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.
Trump’s move is not just about curbing Iran’s weapons of mass
destruction.
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