Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.
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