In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on.
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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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.
Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions.
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"They are directly contributing to the destruction of world's remaining ancient forests, " he alleged.
" Or, as South Carolina plantation mistress Mary Chesnut lamented: "Our world has gone to destruction.
But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.
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.
C. taking 1.5 million barrels out of production is peanuts with demand destruction in the world now above 2 million barrels.
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.
"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.
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.
In contemporary Britain its members are more worried about the destruction of the natural world.
There, nearly 20, 000 ecologists arrived from nearly 200 nations to find ways to stem the tide of ecological destruction occurring around the world.
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.
"But let us not forget today that thanks to the valor of our veterans, the world is safer today from complete destruction than it has been in a long, long time, " he said.
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But it was the 1983 movie War Games, in which Matthew Broderick's character breaks into the Pentagon's computer system and brings the world to the brink of nuclear destruction, that launched the career of many an adolescent hacker.
Project Hexapod will even post a video of the destruction on YouTube for the world to enjoy.
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The Gulf produces 70% of the world's oil, so any destruction of installations there will push prices higher.
The rise of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, and then the destruction wrought by the second world war, made many European democrats reconsider the usefulness of judges.
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.
This destruction has been ignored by the world, and certainly not seen as a provocation.
The destruction they could cause to the world's unprotected grids could run to the trillions of dollars to repair and the loss of countless lives.
They applied it to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which ended World War II.
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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Today global hostilities are covered with unprecedented scrutiny magnifying their destruction and expanding the perception that the world has become concurrently more perilous and exceedingly unpredictable.
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.
The hall was lucky to escape destruction by both the 1834 fire and World War II bombing with its vast stained glass arched window dominating one end still intact (c).
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.
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