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The language changes, but the belief that Western civilization is living on borrowed time (and money) is the same.
The Dutch Freedom Party (whose only member is its leader, Geert Wilders), the Danish People’s Party, led by Pia Kjaersgaard, and Jimmy Akesson’s Sweden Democrats claim to be the defenders of Western civilization against its main enemy: Islam.
Globalization and Islam are not incompatible, so long as Islam is recognized as a tradition that has much to contribute to world civilization, not treated as a menace to be neutralized.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
And he reminded the executives that, “Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization!”
“Our civil life and civilization are defined and judged primarily by our respect for the dignity of humanity and integrity of nature.”
All of this is happening not in some remote country, far removed from civilization.
It is an ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years, imbued with fierce national pride.
This period – known as the Holocene – provided the stability that enabled human civilization to rise and thrive.
We risk disrupting the earth’s critical systems, and with them modern civilization itself.
He concluded that the mismatch between our early condition and modern civilization is at the root of our unhappiness, advocating a literal return to nature.
Chemobyl holds out another message: a radioactivity that ignores national boundaries reminds us that we live -- for the first time in history -- in one interconnected civilization wrapping the planet.
Young people do not become fundamentalists because their parents' culture is ignored by Western civilization.
Moreover, young radicals go to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, or Kashmir rather than in their countries of origin, because they do not regard the Middle East as the heart of a Muslim civilization under siege by crusaders.
This recognition lies at the heart of the concept of “planetary health,” which focuses on the health of human civilization and the condition of the natural systems on which it depends.
All humanity is faced by this crucial dilemma: to silently watch a suicidal self-propulsion of our civilization; or to become active participants in the maintenance of global public assets, including the most precious one of all – our planet and its biosphere – of which we are a part.
It is an ancient civilization that cannot simply be sidelined or ignored, unless one wants to invite even more chaos.
More than arguably, European civilization will not regain its truth or vitality until the causal implications of Christianity, of its founding doctrines and institutions thereafter, in the 20th century catastrophe, are faced up to unequivocally.
The missionary ethos of American civilization helps to explain its conduct as a global power.
The resurgence of Islamism is essentially a quest for a fulfilling identity by an ancient civilization overwhelmed by the challenges of modernity.
It is difficult to talk about Russian civilization without talking about Ukraine.
But, having become much richer over the past three decades, China is now proposing to the world its own model of development – and, indeed, of civilization.
It also reflects deep, long-standing concerns about the effects of civilization: urban overcrowding, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy habits like tobacco and alcohol consumption, overeating, and stress.
It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.
I believe that across the globe, America is a symbolic concentration of all the good and bad within our civilization -- from the fantastic development of science and technology, to civil liberty and strong democratic institutions, to the cult of perpetual economic growth and never-ending consumption, to the dictates of materialism and the voiding of human uniqueness by the uniformity of the round-the-clock noise of TV banality.
For these reasons, the ways in which America assumes its global responsibilities must embody those premises that alone may save civilization as a whole: this way should be imbued with a new spirituality, a new ethos and new ethics; exactly with the things that should be adopted by all cultures, all spheres of civilization and all nations of today's world as a condition of their survival.
Today's civilization was born within it but so were two World Wars.
Born of the American and French Revolutions, that vision linked Europe to North America in a wider Atlantic civilization.
The idea of looking at previous experiences to inform future action is as old as civilization.
Part of the answer is as old as civilization itself: droughts, floods, conflict, and displacement have hurt harvests and weakened output.
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