John Crowley's novel " Engine Summer " ( 1979 ) takes place perhaps a thousand years after " the Storm " ( not described ) destroyed industrial civilization.
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While rooted in Northern Ontario, the story indicted modern industrial civilization as an extension of the European colonization of Canada by depicting an entire society's fall into ruin.
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In this publication Lazar defined new social and aesthetic approaches and solutions to the issues of the ecological impact on the environment produced by the modern industrial civilization.
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_Ditch " Earth in the Balance, " your 1992 best-seller in which you wrote that " the froth and frenzy of industrial civilization mask our deep loneliness ."
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Petroleum is vital to many industries, and is of importance to the maintenance of industrial civilization in its current configuration, and thus is a critical concern for many nations.
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A number of ecological economists claim that industrial civilization has already " overshot " the carrying capacity of the Earth, and " smart growth " is mostly an illusion.
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In the mid-19th century, the new industrial civilization was seen as a cause of mental disorders, but only for the refined, large-cortex minds of evolution's highest form, the white person.
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The second " industrial " phase encompasses modern industrial civilization where machines temporarily lift all de-industrial " phase follows where industrial economies decline to a period of equilibrium with renewable resources and the natural environment.
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But climatologists said they were still not sure if diminishing polar ice reflected some short-term natural cycle or was a wake-up call of possibly drastic climatic consequences of an industrial civilization's release of heat-trapping gases.
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The themes of questioning industrial civilization, environmentalism, and humankind's role and responsibilities continued with the publication of author Daniel Quinn's books The Man Who Grew Young and After Dachau in 2001, and The Holy in 2002.
