President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, who has spent 10 years chairing talks between the two sides, called on both parties to build on the breakthrough, urging them to consider the human suffering, destruction of resources and loss of life that would result from a continuation of the conflict.
With blinding clarity, the nuclear blasts illuminated the tragedy of how two nations had diverted their undeniable talent and resources toward fratricidal destruction, neglecting the worth of their own people.
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.
Anyone who has seen Avatar will recognize the parallels between its plotline and what critics say is happening in Alberta: a proud and noble indigenous people under attack by money-grubbing outsiders bent on pillaging their resources even if it means the destruction of their way of life.
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In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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More important, as Schumpeter argued, recessions are a process of creative destruction in which inefficient firms are weeded out, releasing resources for more productive firms.
Conversely, Schumpeterian creative destruction transfers capital and resources into bands playing fresh numbers while composing innovative products ready for the challenges of the new paradigm.
These considerations lay at the heart of the decision (lest we forget, supported overwhelmingly and on a bipartisan basis at the time) to liberate Iraq in the first place, thus denying terrorists a sanctuary with vast oil resources, a strategic location and a technology base and industrial capacity affording access to weapons of mass destruction.
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