Sentences with phrase «end for a civilization»

Food insecurity could well spell the end for civilization, whether it arises due to the end of oil, climate change, or (most likely) both.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, «Lord Business» later moved on to more advanced, empire - building strategy video games, such as Civilization, where he would «lose himself for hours on end.»

It permeates the history of post-Classical Western civilization as politics, culture, science, and individualism are perverted for selfish ends.

We need the control of atomic energy for constructive ends, lest civilization and perhaps humanity itself cease to exist upon earth.

You have no pro-life credibility whatsoever if you're for ending abortion and poverty, but support sending young men and women to die overseas in order to spread Western civilization and Christianity (which utterly fails every time).

If so, it would seem that there is no alternative to bracing ourselves for the escalation of an open - ended clash of civilizations.

It appears wherever finite and relative things or powers arc regarded as ends - in - themselves, where man is treated as existing for his own sake, where civilization is valued for civilization's sake, where art is practiced for art's sake, where life is lived for life's sake or nation adored for nation's sake.

The central questions Augustine addressed in The City of God, questions of absolute moment to him and to his contemporaries, were: What or who is responsible for the end of civilization?

If nations continue to assert their independence of all higher authority, the end will be either war to the death (for all) or the emergence of a single dominant world power which will maintain by force the minimal order necessary to insure the survival of civilization.

At the close of his essay Gene Logsdon asks, «Could humankind for once end an old cycle and begin a new one based on a pastoral food system without an intervening decline or collapse of the economy and civilization?»

[3] Closely related, it is also possible that he also began to suspect that apocalyptic thought had some validity, a suspicion that process thought was designed to overcome, for apocalyptic thought held to a dualism — although civilizations shall be shattered and the earth shall fall to pieces and life shall come to an end, another, truer, more real reality remains.

Are children's menus an absolute necessity for families dining out or are they the end of civilization?

It has become necessary for me to end the day's write - ups with this piece because of a discussion I had with one of my trusted political godfathers concerning the just ended accounting to the people tour by President Mahama.It is important we critically look at the person Mahama as we move on because of the sensitive position he occupies.I was also moved by comments his colleagues made about him in Kigali confirming that natural accolade that Ghana is the torch bearer when it comes to African civilization.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

On the following pages are experiments and plans to guide a civilization looking for a way out — a survival guide to the end of the cosmos.

The opportunities stem from Iranian president Muhammad Khatami's call for a «dialogue of civilizations,» a policy designed to end 25 years of cultural isolation from Western nations.

If you look at the history of humanity there have been cases where two civilizations have come in contact for the first time, one of these civilizations with a slightly more advanced technology, and that group has ended up subjugating the other group.

One wild idea the Silurian hypothesis raises is that the end of one civilization could sow the seeds for another.

By turns bizarrely affectless and then prattlingly manic, much like its dual protagonists, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World unfolds during the wind - down of civilization as we know it.

And if it hadn't been for Mario and the encouragement of his allies, the opening of that door would have signaled the end of civilization.

Jaguar Paw saves his family (for the time being), but ends up captured himself, and finds that himself taken into the heart of Mayan civilization to ostensibly be used in a ritualistic sacrifice to restore the dying crops.

Still, Apocalypto slots in solidly next to a spate of caveman action flicks from the last couple of years: stories about civilizations» end (and this film begins with Will Durant's famous post-mortem for the fall of the Roman Empire: «A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within») that have its survivors reconstructing the world along Old Testament guidewires.

A better word for «weak» would be «hodgepodge,» as the psychological thriller cum horror «A Cure for Wellness» brings in elements from «Bride of Frankenstein,» «The Phantom of the Opera,» «Hostel 2,» and all the laughable sci - fi pictures of the 1950's wherein the scripts for dystopian civilizations seem often enough to end up with «Perhaps we scientists would be better off if we did not interfere with nature.»

It's not the end of civilization, just symptomatic of how easy it is to get laughs on the backs of the disenfranchised — and of how African - American actors get awards for singing and acting like criminals (or bright children and athletes) but generally get paid for acting the fool.

If there is a god, Farrell will get an Oscar nom for his monotone bachelor who dispassionately observes the end of civilization until he finds passion too late.

By the end of the film, he has become the leader of a downtrodden civilization, spreading his anti-human propaganda for the sake of fulfilling an ambitious plan.

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Their location at the end of a tree - lined seafront road has a backdrop of activities at the nearby Royal Langkawi Yacht Club as well as the Kuah Ferry Terminal, making «civilization» less than a stone's throw away and convenient for those wishing to explore by foot.

A few days ago, fellow That VideoGame Blog editor Jason Cook wrote a preview for the upcoming Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, towards the end of which he said, «CivRev is grid based, so at the most elementary level the difference between selecting a square with a mouse and with the left thumbstick is quite noticeable.

After coming from strategic level games like Europa Universalis IV or Fallen Enchantress or even Civilization V's Brave New World add - on, what an insufferably half - baked attempt at a strategic front end, from the interface to the finicky systems to the plodding drawn out alphabetical cavalcade of minor powers taking their turns while I wait for it to be my turn to hit next turn again.

Game Review: Picking up immediately where the original Myst ended, players are presented the privilege, challenge and responsibility of restoring the lost empire of the D'ni — an ancient civilization of people who thrived for thousands of years but later met with a great catastrophe.

Fans of Sid Meier's Civilization series who have witnessed the game's recent E3 trailer were no doubt delighted to hear the iconic voice of British actor Sean Bean (who's famous for his portrayal as the stoic Ned Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones TV adaptation) narrating the trailer, and now it has been confirmed that Sean Bean's involvement with the game doesn't end there.

PC and other decreased to 15.2 % for the nine months ended December 31, 2015, as compared to 20.7 % for the prior year's period, as last year's period benefited from the PC release of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in October 2014.

Based on the idea of the never - ending desire of human civilizations to fight for survival, and on riots as instrument for social redemption, the exhibition presents a reverted climax in which proceeding upwards corresponds to a rarefaction of the works and their materiality.

Yet Shahbazi's pictures, according to curator Beatrix Ruff are «unpolitical», in the sense that no opinions or evaluations are suggested and no final interpretations are possible, but they are «political» in that they make room for hybrids and set a course for open - ended discourse that is vital to civilization today.

His work is both meaningful in historical terms, reminiscent of Roman civilization ending right there at Hadrian's wall, and in a contemporary political sense, provoking a thinking on what this border means for England and Scotland today.

Does the onset of ocean anoxia at the end of many of these events suggest a possibility of cycle where the collapse of one civilization provides the seeds (fossil fuels) for the next?

Reading the IPCC working group 3 report one does find some «winners» in the short term, but by century's end it's pretty much all bad for human civilization — with strong potential for catastrophically bad.

So the end of oil, for example, doesn't mean the end of energy use or necessarily, of human civilization.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

James Hansen blurbs book calling for lawless destruction and the end of civilization?!

Who here would have been agreed that this was going to be a good thing for the vast majority of future generations and who would have been forecasting doom and gloom and the end of civilization as we know it?

As such, critics of the good Anthropocene say, ecomodernism doesn't adequately consider the potential for civilization - ending catastrophe or for a stronger societal connection to nature.

I believe that our presence here, on earth, in the numbers that we have managed to achieve, coupled with the fact that we have destroyed millions upon millions of oxygen producers (Trees) and have a penchant for asphalt and tarmac, which are very heat absorbing, and purposely keep reflective surfaces to a minimum (they're blinding) AND have created a civilization based on burning fossil fuels and using other things which are detrimental to our ecology, that, yes, we are probably responsible in large for the exelerated melting of the global ice... but, we have been in a state of warming since the last ice age ended... we just speeded up the process.

Even BPL doesn't believe that civilization will have for sure ended by that time.

But the idea that peak oil would end human civilization which endured for ten thousand years and laid the foundations of all modern science before humans ever burned a drop of oil is absurd.

, there will be enough food for some; however, to paraphrase Hunter Thompson, — where civilization ends, some of us enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Last month's Humble Monthly Bundle that offered Civilization VI, among other games, has finally come to an end, and replacing it as the early unlock for this month is FromSoftware's massively popular action RPG, Dark Souls III.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,