On AlterNet: civilization

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Copenhagen Won't Be Enough -- Only a 'Human Movement' Can Save Civilization from the Climate Crisis

Fred Branfman, Sacramento News & Review. December 9, 2009.

A strange cloud envelops human civilization as its leaders fail to take the measures to protect it in Copenhagen that they themselves endorsed just five months ago.

Crazy Conservatives Worry About Gay Marriage (and the End of Civilization)

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. April 8, 2009.

What I find especially amusing about this is the notion that men and women will stop getting married if same-sex couples start getting married.

The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial

Robert Jensen, AlterNet. August 15, 2008.

Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.

The End of the World As We Know It?

Jane Smiley, Huffington Post. October 28, 2006.

There aren't many tyrants in history who can truthfully say they put the entire future of civilization at risk just to make a buck -- but Dick Cheney can.