degradation

Crusius’ manifesto was striking because he considered the crushing squeeze of environmental degradation — the very changes that would be amplified by climate change — on communities, but from the opposite perspective.

“If we bring everyone on the planet into an American lifestyle,” he said, “there first off might not be much planet left, and at the very least, the kind of degradation that might entail would be tremendous and horrifying.”

We lived through the degradation of public discourse and the normalization of blatant, unrepentant lying.

We are told that we are the ones at fault for the degradation.

“I’m getting less for my money,” he said, calling it an overall “degradation of service quality.”