“If you like challenges, there’s no greater time to be alive”- Lester Brown. If you want to know how people are going to save civilization from ecological disaster, listen to Lester Brown. He’s an environmental policy wonk and advisor to countless heads of state and policy makers.
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The question should not be ‘Can we save civilisation?’. It should be ‘Is civilisation worth saving?’.
Anyone who takes some time to consider what civilisation is will be forced to face this question. Derrick Jensen defines culture and civilisation as follows:
culture is “a complex of stories, institutions, and artifacts — that both leads to and emerges from the growth of cities (civilization, see civil: from civis, meaning citizen, from Latin civitatis, meaning city-state), with cities being defined [..] as people living more or less permanently in one place in densities high enough to require the routine importation of food and other necessities of life.”
(http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/3-Civilization.htm)
Chris Betts | Aug 14, 2008 | Reply
bless you for this work, let me know if you need support or help on any level.
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grace kelland | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply