From here one can distinguish what we mean anthropologically by " nomadic " from our metaphorical usage of it critically and theoretically to describe the shiftings and migrations occurring in a global civilization . . . . Paradoxically, this logic proceeds to make the couch potato or armchair traveller a potentially formidable player of nomadism ."
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A "'planetary civilization "'or "'global civilization "'is a civilization of Type I on Kardashev scale, with energy consumption levels near that of a contemporary terrestrial civilization with an energy capability equivalent to the solar insolation on Earth ( between 10 16 and 10 17 watts ).
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;May 2007 : The Spiritual Assembly of the Bah? �s of Macau, The Institute for Global Civilization, The Shandong University Bah? ?Studies Institute, the Center for the Study of the Bah? ?Faith at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Religions and Qingdao University organized a seminar on Seeking Inner Harmony.
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;September 2007 : The Center for the Study of the Bah? ?Faith at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Religions, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Religious Studies, The Institute of Global Civilization, and the Spiritual Assembly of the Bah? �s of Macau held an international academic seminar on Science, Religion, and Social and Economic Development : Reflection on the Contribution by the Bah? ?Faith Towards an Harmonious Society.
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:: : Well, once again, there is no reliable source for the 50, 000 year number-- this could happen within the century-- and global civilization could easily fall due to nuclear war or a plague, etc . The bottom line is, assuming there are people alive they will not go " extinct " because of an ice age itself . talk ) 20 : 13, 17 February 2013 ( UTC)
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He told everyone to " focus on the eternal, " condemned " short-term decision-making, " bemoaned modern materialism in the " first global civilization that is basically atheistic, " urged leaders of rich countries to " restructure their economies sensibly " to help the poor, pleaded for governments to " strengthen a system of universally shared moral standards, " and declared sagely that " nobody could emigrate from this earth ."
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Andr?Malraux, then the French Minister of Cultural Affairs, added his voice to the appeal : The power that created the colossal monuments threatened today . . . speaks to us in a voice as exalted as that of the architects of Chartres, as that of Rembrandt . . . Your appeal is historic, not because it proposes to save the temples of Nubia, but because through it the first global civilization publicly claims the world s art as its indivisible heritage . . . There is only one action over which the indifference of stars and the eternal murmuring of rivers have no sway-it is the act by which man snatches something from death .
