despoliation

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Matt: Environmental despoliation appears multiple times in “Andor.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Any further despoliation of the oceans would have to be stopped, including the dumping of wastes, plastics, engine fuel, and runoff pesticides.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2020

Published in 1972, Le Guin’s book asserted that colonialism, extractivism, and environmental despoliation are endemic to humankind, and we surely haven’t proved her wrong in the years since.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2020

But it takes work to see them, to look past the pervasive despoliation and reconcile the rough hand of man with the fragility of old forests and mountains.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017

And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)