The word 'civilisation' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a group of people who have a shared culture, customs, and social organization. You can use the word 'civilisation' in a variety of contexts, such as discussing historical periods, cultural differences, or societal developments. Example: "The ancient Egyptian civilisation was known for its impressive pyramids and advanced system of writing."
But remember, if you're looking at six or eight bedroom houses you'll need to start looking early to make sure you don't end up miles away from civilisation.
President Bashar is the only one to preserve Syria as a land of civilisation.
At the sold-out Guardian Live event for 2,000 Guardian Members on 6 October in Westminster, Owen Jones asked Klein why she believes climate change is a wake-up call for civilisation, why it's now about changing the world and not just light bulbs and how tearing up the "free-market playbook" may be the answer.
It is also because walking through Algiers is like walking through the wreckage of a recently abandoned civilisation, whose citizens have only just departed in a hurry, leaving behind them their most personal possessions which you immediately recognise.
One of my uncles, when he returned to London after a period of schooling in Ghana, simply exclaimed: "Back to civilisation".
As had already been the case after the military coups in Brazil in 1964 and then in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, and as was to be the case latterly in modern Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, the military and police torturers were ready with their electrodes, thumbscrews and waterboarding equipment to defend "western Christian civilisation".
Here in Hull, A-levels in Greek and Latin are part of a remote past (though, as you mention, the A-level in classical civilisation is popular).
I think we're at a point now where we can make that choice, to say maybe we can harness the positives that we've developed with industrial civilisation and develop something new, a post-growth, post-industrial form of civilisation that doesn't reject science and technology but recognises that ultimately you have to be living within the limits of your environmental systems.
They all, everywhere, seem perfectly content to be poor and it made me wonder what use there was in trying to force industry and civilisation on them.
It's best not to think about what miners do, and have done, for centuries, in order to provide humanity with the materials it needs to create civilisation.
It's a celebration of technical civilisation that invites you to be amazed at the things that people can do.
