Devastation is associated with destruction.
Devastation is the action and effect of devastating . This verb refers to destroying or reducing something to pieces . The most common use of the concept is associated with the destruction of a territory , which destroys its land and buildings.
For example: "After the tsunami, the devastation of the coastal region was total" , "The governor called on the population to work together to rebuild the town after the devastation" , "I will never be able to support a government that ordered the devastation." from a neighboring country for ethnic reasons .
You have to go to Latin to be able to find the etymological origin of the term that concerns us now. And it emanates from the word devastatio, which is the result of the sum of several components:
- The prefix of -, which indicates "remoteness" .
- The verb vastare , which can be translated as "to be empty."
- The suffix -cion , which is used to indicate action and effect.
Causes of devastation
Devastation can occur for different reasons. Various natural phenomena , such as an earthquake , a tsunami , a volcanic eruption or a flood , can devastate a territory and generate material losses ranging from millionaires to the death of a large number of people.
Cities that are located in areas that often suffer natural disasters have special protections and emergency mechanisms to act in the event of a phenomenon. Everything that man can do, however, may be insufficient to avoid devastation, as happened with the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that affected Japan in 2011 .
It is important to note that devastation can also be caused by humans . The nuclear bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are proof of this.
Pollution can cause ecological devastation.
Destruction of ecology
Likewise, there is currently much concern about what has been called ecological devastation . As its name indicates, this term is used to refer to all the actions that are taking place on the planet to the detriment of its environment.
In this sense, human beings are the most responsible for the damage that is being caused to nature due to the various actions they undertake and which translate into high levels of pollution.
Osorio Devastations
It must be emphasized that from the point of view of history there is an event called the Devastations of Osorio . Specifically, it is an order that the Spanish king Felipe III gave to Antonio de Osorio so that he, as governor of Hispaniola , would put an end to smuggling. Specifically, he requested that he depopulate the western part of the island and bring the population as close as possible to Santo Domingo .
The reason why the monarch decided to take measures to put an end to smuggling was that it undermined the benefits that the Crown obtained from "legal" commercial transactions.
a villain
Devastation , finally, is the name of a comic book villainess created by Eric Luke for DC Comics .
This character faced Wonder Woman , who is her half-sister.