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Anti-Semitism comes in waves, and each historical epoch provides its motives.
It needs such weapons to compensate psychologically for NATO’s preponderance – a reversal of the Cold War epoch – in conventional forces.
That epoch came to an end in 2000, and will not return.
Scientists have given a name to our era, the Anthropocene, a term built on ancient Greek roots to mean “the Human-dominated epoch” – a new period of earth’s history in which humanity has become the cause of global-scale environmental change.
As scientists have conclusively shown, in the last decade, we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human activity – in particular, economic activity – has been the dominant factor influencing Earth’s climate and environment.
But the biggest uncertainty of all is whether this is simply the end of another year, or the end of a geopolitical epoch.
These risks to democracy are greatest because of the bad and sad traditions of Soviet power and the centuries of the pre-Soviet epoch.
In any case, one need only glance at the headlines to comprehend that the issue has become a defining feature of our economic epoch.
For an epoch in Russia's history is ending.
Many people outside of Japan associate the Restoration with the imperialism and militarism that erupted in the 1930s, but this misses the point by reducing an entire epoch to what happened in a single decade.
If we are really at the end of the historical epoch that began in 1789, will we be returned to the Age of Enlightenment?
Humans are changing the natural environment so dramatically, and to our own detriment, that scientists believe we have entered a new geologic epoch – the “Anthropocene” – which began around 1950 and is characterized by unprecedented planetary pollution.
As we enter the so-called Anthropocene epoch, in which human activity is a dominant influence on the climate and environment, we must take a hard – and nuanced – look at how we are using that power.
What Clinton did and said during her Asian tour will mark either the end of the era that Kissinger initiated four decades ago, or the start of a distinct new phase in that epoch.
TOKYO – The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm once called the epoch stretching from the French Revolution of 1789 to World War I’s outbreak in 1914 as the “long nineteenth century.”
In order to understand that epoch, we have to know and carefully judge often ambiguous and overwhelming circumstances, never simplifying a multilayered daily reality for the sake of current political goals.
The Economist declared that Monday, September 21, “the definite end of an epoch in the world’s financial and economic development.”
The start of World War I, in August 1914, not only ended a long period of peace, but also suspended an earlier epoch of economic integration and globalization.
In our Anthropocene epoch, we acknowledge that humankind has become the single most important force acting on the planet.
Long before clever commentators proclaimed the arrival of “the Anthropocene” – a geological epoch defined by humankind’s command over nature – it was a truism in advanced industrialized economies that the world was eminently under our control.
Every epoch, dating at least from Roman times, produces versions of it whenever some shift in market structure or geopolitics creates an opportunity for fortunes to be built quickly.
Both remind us that the Anthropocene epoch may end badly.
That reality has launched the geological epoch called the Anthropocene: For better or worse, humankind has reached the point at which our own actions will determine the future for almost every other species on the planet.
The Case for a Quadripolar WorldCAMBRIDGE – Having diminished America’s global role while refusing to accept China’s growing clout, Donald Trump’s presidency represents the last gasp of a unipolar epoch.
Moreover, we have entered the Anthropocene epoch, in which human activity is the primary influence on the climate and environment.
That landscape defines our current geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humanity is the dominant force and source of pressure on the planet.
The world is a better place as a result of his service, and Packer has now given us a worthy monument to his career and the historical epoch in which he pursued it.
Though Koznyshev's plan, which Levin had not heard to the end – of how a liberated Slavonic world, forty millions strong, should, together with Russia, commence a new epoch in history – interested him very much as something quite new to him, and though he was disturbed by curiosity and anxiety as to why he had been summoned, yet as soon as he had left the drawing-room and was alone, he immediately recollected his thoughts of the morning.
But among all the obstinate seekers of that epoch, Baron Desruinaux had certainly left the reputation for the most heroic intelligence.
And in some remote epoch, built up by volcanic disgorgings and successive layers of lava, who knows whether the peaks of these fire-belching mountains may reappear above the surface of the Atlantic!
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