Definition of "wasteland"

Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air

2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II.

Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest

How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?

2014, Randall Munroe, anonymous quotee, “Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 157

Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.

2023 September 20, “National Rail Awards 2023”, in RAIL, page 82