Destruction of the world's forests releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
Barber had caught a small glimpse of a larger global issue -- the destruction of the world's coral reefs -- and it scared him.
The anti-terrorism campaign begun after the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon "will not be quick, and it will not be easy, " he said.
But although bin Laden claimed responsibility for the destruction of the World Trade Center and the deaths of thousands of Americans, the outpouring of celebration doesn't feel right for everyone.
Nukes (bombs) are costly to maintain and what is the big deal about having such dangerous weapons that cannot be used at all for fear of total destruction of the world.
Environmental groups have long complained that the WTO speeds the destruction of the world's forests and other resources by pressing its member nations to throw open their markets to increased trade.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went even further last week declaring that those critical of the construction of a permanent symbol of Shariah adherents' victorious destruction of the World Trade Center "ought to be ashamed of themselves" for being intolerant.
The destruction of the World Trade Centre was a terrible, depraved, large-scale mirror image of what is already the experience of many outside the developed world: people, going about their normal business, being obliterated out of the blue by the planned, hostile actions of others.
That effectively happened in 1994, when the Pentagon looked at a potential war on the Korean peninsula and concluded that it would lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties in a few days, and the destruction of one of the world's largest cities.
The impact of the images of Muslim kids brandishing weapons, marching in goosestep and giving stiff-armed salutes in mass demonstrations underscores a point made in the film by the late Alfons Heck, a former Hitler Youth Group leader in Nazi Germany: Islamofascism is really just the latest in a series of totalitarian ideologies bent on the destruction of the Free World.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
In contemporary Britain its members are more worried about the destruction of the natural world.
When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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The longer Israel allows its very right to exist to be contingent on the establishment of another terror state committed to its destruction, the less the nations of the world will feel obliged to accept its right to exist.
The destruction of World Heritage sites in Mali in 2012, especially the mausoleums in Timbuktu, sparked a wave of indignation across the world, helping to raise awareness of the critical situation facing the Malian people.
According to the Nature Conservancy, if the present rate of destruction continues, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed by the year 2050.
He was "deeply angry and upset to discover that, owing to the deliberate destruction of documents by the News of the World, he will never find out the true extent to which his privacy was invaded, " Mr Reed said.
Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.
So this is also the season when stories of death, destruction, and the end of the world from climate change appear daily.
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With Iran in mind, foreign ministers earlier adopted a series of principles on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction all over the world.
The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the Second World War.
There, nearly 20, 000 ecologists arrived from nearly 200 nations to find ways to stem the tide of ecological destruction occurring around the world.
The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose to the world.
As we see today in the wholesale perversion of law in the service of Israel's destruction in countries around the Western world, law is but a tool.
Worse yet, a blue-ribbon commission has calculated that the probability of the use of weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the world by 2013 is now over 50 percent.
And they have engaged in the wholesale destruction of the ancient treasures of the city of Timbuktu, a world heritage site, much as the Taliban did when they conquered Afghanistan and blew up the ancient Buddha statues in Bamiyan.
Most of the Islamic world is not set on the destruction of the West, but when they see their own suffering in stark contrast to America's prosperity, they become desperate, and bombing them willy nilly is not going to change that.
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We are determined to do the job which governments have been doing for the past ten years which is stop the import of rainforest destruction products from around the world.
But it was a few years later, walking through the vineyards just north of Epernay in the Marne Valley, that I became aware of the historical significance of a landscape that saw the destruction of thousands of young men in World War I.
The bipolar international structure of the Cold War is often warmly remembered as a time when the balance of power - aided by the commonly understood inevitability of mutual assured destruction - ensured a relatively peaceful world where a war between the superpowers was largely unfeasible.
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