Sentences with phrase «war as its civilization»

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He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence — even describing AI as «the greatest risk we face as a civilization» while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their disagreement on the subject.

But I can not overlook one passage, which concerns me too, as an Israeli living near the fault - line of this «war of civilizations».

With the exam oriented toward Western civilization and theistic as well as secular perspectives, it calls to mind the Culture Wars of the 1980s.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

As this version deftly reminds us, the Trojan War was a war between East and West, between tribes (the Balkan Greeks) and empire (the Trojan Medes), between raw impulse and high civilizatiWar was a war between East and West, between tribes (the Balkan Greeks) and empire (the Trojan Medes), between raw impulse and high civilizatiwar between East and West, between tribes (the Balkan Greeks) and empire (the Trojan Medes), between raw impulse and high civilization.

Seeing civilization polarized against barbarism as the world is poised for war, he calls for a synthesis of man in community and of communal man to «the dread but vital whole of things» (SM 250) in worship of the spirit.

These developments confronted «the church and civilization with moral issues as important as the elimination of war» (June 21, 1928).

One wonders what alternative courses of action to the Civil War might have brought southern leaders to see that, although their people did not create slavery as an economic system or raw cotton as the principal product in the regional economy, the regional modus operandi was antithetical to the spirit of the American Constitution and the democratarian trend of Western civilization.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

But, if the choice is between compromising Islamic truth or a war of civilizations, it is almost certain that the winner among Muslims will be the hard - core Islamism that Lewis rightly views as such a great threat.

We would wage war upon false optimism; on the base hope of happiness coming to us ready made; on the notion of a salvation by knowledge alone, or by material civilization alone, vain symbol as this is of civilization, precarious external arrangement, ill - fitted to replace the intimate union and consent of souls.

There is no hope for peace and civilization unless the pressures for the earth's limited resources are relieved by responsible social planning; and, conversely, there is no hope for dealing constructively with resources and population as long as war and the fear of war govern the decisions of nations.

Harmony then functions to cure, as in the case of Leibniz and Whitehead, one of the ills of civilization, religious war.

For as was prophesied in Daniel 11v39, and in Moses 32v17, of our future generations doing wrong, and idols not known to the forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that we will do, and here we are today in this so called civilization of mayhem; in difference, greed, poverty, war, hate, etc...

What drives his narrative, however, is a vision of the Persian Wars as a clash of civilizations, which he presents as possessing significant parallels to the conflicts of our own day.

However, for the countries of Western Europe, as the centuries passed and memories of Holy Wars gave way to the hopes of the enlightenment, the boundaries of Christendom became gradually less important than the boundaries of «Western civilization» which were both culturally and politically narrower than those of Christendom.

Emerging as an element of the European «standard of civilization» in the 19th century, the laws of war were meant, in part, to distinguish «civilised» Europe from the «uncivilised» rest of the world.

Accidental massive nuclear war and an unexpected asteroid strike — those are the two things that could wipe out the edifice of civilization that we've built up as a species over millennia.

Then in Lawrence Keeley's 1996 book War Before Civilization I read that modern states at their worst, such as Germany in the 20th century or France in the 19th century, had rates of death in warfare that were dwarfed by those of hunter - gatherer and hunter - horticultural societies.

But since war rocked this cradle of civilization last spring, such legendary archaeological treasure troves as Nineveh, Nippur, Nimrud, and Babylon have been trashed.

The bare bones plot involves a veteran of the Mexican War named Jeremiah Johnson who seeks to leave civilization behind and make a new life for himself as a mountain man.

In the» 6os, despite a Cold War that threatened to turn hot and blow up civilization, people saw the future as a clean and gleaming place, with flying cars and monorails moving at the speed of light.

Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.

Despite a wobbly British accent, Theron does a great job as the badass spy navigating shark - infested waters of a civilization on the brink of war.

In «Pixels,» a distant alien civilization misinterpreted a time capsule containing classic arcade games as a declaration of war.

The journey forces the Sengles and Lowells to navigate power, rebellion, and war among unfamiliar civilizations as Ice Cream struggles to secure the cure without sacrificing her humanity or the lives that depend on her.

Mastiff - type dogs were used in war in the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome as early as 1000 BC.

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Lead a civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age, and go head - to - head with history's most intrepid leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known in a race for ultimate supremacy.

As in other Civilization games, these leaders pop up with in - game animations to deliver messages of peace, war and / or compromise.

A collaboration between developers Climax Studios and Ubisoft Montreal, Assassin's Creed Chronicles takes players through three distinct civilizations at tremulous time periods throughout history including the Ming dynasty at the start of its downfall, the Sikh Empire as it prepares for war in India, and the aftermath of the Red October Revolution.

As a human - robot hybrid Hot Wire, you must explore the ruins of civilization in the wake of the final Robot Wars and assemble an army of automatons to gather energy and fight the enemy.

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The game extends a nearly decade and a half's long campaign of real - time space war with an RTS system that serves as a cross between the resource acquisition of traditional 4x turn - based strategy games such as the Civilization series and the RTS battlefield play of the Total War seriwar with an RTS system that serves as a cross between the resource acquisition of traditional 4x turn - based strategy games such as the Civilization series and the RTS battlefield play of the Total War seriWar series.

Conveying an epic scope of the ages meanwhile — such as the Total War and turn - based Civilization series — while retaining relatively accessible gameplay tends to be a more daunting task.

Wage war, conduct diplomacy, advance your culture, and go head - to - head with history's greatest leaders as you attempt to build the greatest civilization the world has ever known.

Fortunately (if use of that word can be imagined here) the war for civilization as we know it is a catholic enterprise.

As long as the collapse of civilization is a potential (if unlikely) consequence of global warming (climate change leads to agricultural collapse leads to war leads to the end of civilization), it's worth paying those premiumAs long as the collapse of civilization is a potential (if unlikely) consequence of global warming (climate change leads to agricultural collapse leads to war leads to the end of civilization), it's worth paying those premiumas the collapse of civilization is a potential (if unlikely) consequence of global warming (climate change leads to agricultural collapse leads to war leads to the end of civilization), it's worth paying those premiums.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

You have agriculture which is killing the oceans, our forests are being cut down, we have exceeded our carrying capacity, and this whole civilization is at war with the natural world (as every civilization is).

Just as America's greatest generation led the effort to defeat the Axis Powers during World War II, so must our generation now lead a World War II - type national mobilization to save civilization from catastrophic consequences.

Business and pollution as usual offers half - measures and promises action just in time, if we are lucky, before the planet warms sufficiently to cause massive crop failure as industrial civilization collapses amidst flood, drought, famine, war, mass migration of the desperate, epidemics.

(11/15/07) «Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal - Fired Power Plants» (5/9/07) «Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices» (3/21/07) «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History» (1/4/07) «Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining» (12/14/06) «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability» (11/3/06) «The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization» (11/15/06) «U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration» (10/4/06) «Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain» (7/13/06) «Let's Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes» (5/12/06) «Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy» (3/22/06) «Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World» (3/9/05) «China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer» (2/16/05)» Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy» (10/27/04) «A Short Path to Oil Independence» (10/13/04) «World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely» (05/05/04) «World Food Prices Rising: Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries» (04/28/04) «Saudis Have U.S. Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil» (4/14/04) «Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy» (4/8/04) «China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices» (3/10/04) «U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes» (2/18/04) «Troubling New Flows of Environmental Refugees» (1/28/04) «Wakeup Call on the Food Front» (12/16/03) «Coal: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond» (12/3/03) «World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall» (9/17/03) «Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest» (8/27/03) «China Losing War with Advancing Deserts» (8/4/03) «Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source» (6/25/03) «World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water» (3/13/03) «Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice» (12/11/02) «Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices» (8/21/02) «Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries» (8/6/02) «World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise» (7/17/02) «New York: Garbage Capital of the World» (4/17/02) «Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected» (3/12/02) «World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure» (2/5/02) «World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001» (1/8/02) «This Year May be Second Warmest on Record» (12/18/01) «World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall» (11/21/01) «Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country» (11/15/01) «Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security» (10/4/01) «Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan» (5/31/01) «Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future» (5/23/01) «Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land» (2/14/01) «Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise - Deprived Societies» (12/19/00) «HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population» (10/31/00) «Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source» (10/3/00) «OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again» (9/8/00) «Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice» (8/29/00) «The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition» (7/25/00) «HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa» (7/18/00) «Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty» (6/21/00) «U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy» (6/7/00) «World Kicking the Cigarette Habit» (5/10/00) «Falling Water Tables in China» (5/2/00) Top of page

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

JT: If you talk about the need to transform civilization and to engage in the functional equivalent of World War III, you may as well just forget it.