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On the other hand, the party of territoriality has real grievances and unites people who face authentic difficulties, whether because of the
destruction
of tradition or threats to their livelihood.
Indeed, the four American strategists who first called for “nuclear zero” – Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn – have partly backtracked, and are now calling for an end to the doctrine of “mutual assured destruction.”
Nuclear deterrence and “mutually assured destruction” would be passé only if we assumed that we – people, countries, and humankind at large – had become so ideal and humane that we no longer needed self-deterrence.
But similarly dire predictions of large-scale job
destruction
and high technology-driven structural unemployment accompanied previous major episodes of automation, including by renowned economists.
People in the rich world think globalization resembles an implacably malignant force that snatches away well paying jobs and sends them to faraway places; people in developing countries think it ushers in a self-obsessed consumerist ethic on a train of corrupt privatization and environmental
destruction.
The leaden despair of lifelessness, impotence, and hopelessness is vastly less appealing than intensity – even if that intensity is found in violence, death, and
destruction.
In comparison, in the aftermath of the
destruction
of the World Trade Center, the American Red Cross received so much money that it abandoned any attempt to examine how much help potential recipients needed.
If recipients claimed to have been affected by the
destruction
of the Twin Towers, they received money for utilities and groceries as well.
In circumventing the Security Council and establishing a fictional link between the alleged presence of weapons of mass
destruction
and the need to “save” the Iraqi people, then-President George W. Bush’s administration introduced an updated model for remaking a third country unilaterally, dealing a heavy blow to international law in the process.
Despite all of this, we continue to degrade our oceans through the relentless
destruction
of habitats and biodiversity, including through overfishing and pollution.
So a threat – Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction
– had to be created.
Add to that the millions more who were injured and displaced from their homes, as well as the
destruction
of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
The Rise of the Food BaronsBERLIN – The industrial-agriculture sector has long faced criticism for practices that contribute to climate change, environmental destruction, and rural poverty.
Germany is working hard to accomplish that same
destruction
via the labor market.
They lied about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction; lied about why Iraq had to be attacked, and then about the course of the war there; and the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency at the time, Christie Whitman, even lied about the air quality in lower Manhattan after the attack, leading thousands of New York City children to suffer from severe respiratory problems.
In the lead-up to the invasion, George W. Bush’s administration assiduously courted journalists at mainstream liberal and conservative news outlets, who then helped it win public support by disseminating what turned out to be false claims about weapons of mass
destruction
(WMD).
But the large-scale
destruction
of financial assets because of underlying uncertainty about the extent of losses in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, and especially after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, shook that assumption.
Most of them did not involve weapons of mass
destruction.
Neither side achieved total victory, but neither risked total destruction, either.
During the Cold War, the US had been even more vulnerable, in technological terms, to a nuclear attack from Russia, but “mutual assured destruction” prevented the worst by keeping vulnerability more or less symmetrical.
It is crucial that representatives at the NPT review conference work together to bring the rule of law to nuclear disarmament and close the gap in the NPT that has permitted the most inhumane of all weapons of mass
destruction
to continue to exist.
The challenges are becoming more urgent as the large and rapidly growing world economy causes massive environmental destruction, and as new technologies demand new skills.
They will not succeed unless they become more open to creative destruction, allowing not only tools and procedures, but also mindsets, to be revamped and upgraded.
Both spirit and the necessary financial institutions must be present to enable "creative
destruction"
- the force Joseph Schumpeter argued sixty years was the engine of capitalist prosperity - to be unleashed.
Levy’s apt name for this process is “destructive creation,” as opposed to “creative destruction,” which is a key driver of productivity, particularly as economies move closer to the technology frontier.
And although the agreement with Russia led in August 2014 to the
destruction
of more than 600 metric tons of chemical agents, Assad and his allies carried out some 20 chemical attacks on the Aleppo, Idlib, and Rif Damascus governorates between July 2014 and the end of Obama’s presidency.
The “competition” part creates serious risks, from economic impediments to war and environmental
destruction.
In his memoirs, Greenspan revealed that his favorite economist was Joseph Schumpeter, inventor of the concept of “creative destruction.”
Capitalism advanced the human condition, said Schumpeter, through a “perennial gale of creative destruction,” which he likened to a Darwinian process of natural selection to secure the “survival of the fittest.”
As Greenspan tells it, the “rougher edges” of creative
destruction
were legislated away by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, but after the wave of de-regulation of the 1970’s, America recovered much of its entrepreneurial, risk-taking ethos.
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