#industrialcivilization — Public Fediverse posts
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> ... how to course-correct our civilization, so that the rise of capitalism as a global economic system based on exploitation and extraction would not corral our species into its own misery and threaten the survival of all species on an irreplaceable planet that is a miracle and not a resource.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/11/the-wonderful-century-alfred-russel-wallace/
#AlfredRusselWallace #EvolutionGuy #CivilizationCourseCorrection
#CourseCorrectCivilization
#IndustrialCivilization
#MariaPopova
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> ... actually the problems we are talking about arise from #industrialism, capitalism. Many other different vectors of the problem have also been suggested. But in my case, I would say one of the real problems is that the Anthropocene suggests that humans have become all powerful.. this whole mythology of human omnipotence is.. destroyed by all the environmental catastrophes.. all around us.
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> We concluded, as some writers in Germany and Czechoslovakia have also concluded, that the important fact of the present time is not the struggle between #capitalism and #socialism but the struggle between industrial civilization and #humanity...This view was reinforced.. by the extreme similarity between the #Bolshevik #commissary and the #American #TrustMagnate [#Capitalist]...
#BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel in _Prospects For #IndustrialCivilization in 1924
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> "Men and women cannot live every moment of their lives at the rational and disciplined level required in modem industrial societies..."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#Faster #Rapidification #DoraRussel #BertrandRussel
on #IndustrialCivilization in 1923 and 1957, way before Gleik in 1999 and Carr in the 2000's and the Pope in 2015.. Over a hundred years of inappropriate pacing...