While the book focused on ancient civilizations, the majority of the film addresses environmental impacts of our current'global civilization', including the impact of concentrating wealth in the hands of the'financial class '.
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He believed that modern society stands at a critical juncture : although industrial society has become culturally and environmentally unsustainable, we have the opportunity to replace it with new values and institutions appropriate to a sustainable global civilization.
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Vint Cerf, who helped develop the Internet's basic communications tools in the 1970s, said hackers " do not contribute in any constructive way to dealing with the many problems our global civilization faces ."
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Amid news reports of the gathering effects of climate change and global civilization teetering towards destruction, he alights on six stories of individuals whose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the impending catastrophe.
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Garrison served as founder and President of the State of the World Forum from 1995 till 2012, a San Francisco based non-profit institution created to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable global civilization.
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While differences between the various main religions that seem to dominate the world cause actual wars or raise fears of conflict, observers fail to note that " the contemporary global civilization . . . is in essence a deeply atheistic one ."
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Since its introduction, the term " Great Transition " has often been used by organizations or individuals in the environmental / sustainability domain to describe a paradigmatic shift of civilization towards the behaviors and values that would be necessary for a sustainable global civilization to flourish.
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Huntington's vision of the emerging world seems especially apt when applied to the theme of the relative decline of the West, or, to put it another way, the death of the idea of a universalist, global civilization based on the Western model.
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If Americans can do this, they might then join Europeans and others in reversing gears and striving to seize the genuine opportunity that was created when the Berlin Wall came down _ an opportunity to build a more equitable, more peaceful and more humanly rewarding global civilization.
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Mustafa Kemal believed that " culture is the foundation of the Turkish Republic . " and described modern Turkey's ideological thrust as " a creation of patriotism blended with a lofty humanist ideal . " He included both his own nation's creative legacy and what he saw as the admirable values of global civilization.
