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Restoration-Destruction

Dynamics:
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. (Thomas Carlyle)
Broader:
Integrity*complex
Narrower:
Irredeemability
Perdition
Depredation
Extermination
Abolition
Vandalism
Elimination
Suppression
Subversion
Upheaval
Undermining
Destructiveness
Foulness
Diminishing
Negativity
Spoilage
Upset
Disorganization
Desolation
Unrehabilitated
Death
Annihilation
Blight
Withering
Extinction
Counter-reformation
Damnation
Coarseness
Brokenness
Disintegration
Banefulness
Sabotage
Annulment
Irremediability
Incorrectness
Inoperative
Obliteration
Nondestructible
Abrogation
Disaster
Suffocation
Calamity
Wastage
Dissolution
Devastation
Overturn
Infiltration
Infiltration
Despoliation
Ruin
Defeat
Dismantlement
Slaughter
Unrepenished
Overorganized
Operational
Renewableness
Rehabilitation
Salvation
Consumption
Rightness
Organization
Service
Functionality
Revival
Resilience
Reform
Improvement
Correctness
Related Problems:
Impairment
Antipathy
Revolution
Wasted time
Defeat
Decline
Disintegration
Deliberate blockage of reforms
Disasters
Breach of promise
Negative effect of glamour
Unwillingness to risk loss of life
Avoidance of negative feedback
Destruction of rural subsistence economy
Subjects:
Destruction
Restoration
Type Classification:
P: Value polarities

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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