Throughout history these branches of culture have responded to war, ecological calamity and crises of many sorts: why, then, should climate change prove so peculiarly resistant to their practices?
Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology have been named alongside nuclear war, ecological catastrophe and super-volcano eruptions as "risks that threaten human civilisation" in a report by the Global Challenges Foundation.
We could not — cannot — get enough of fantasies of destruction, meant at once to inflame and soothe our fear of vanishing altogether, whether through war, ecological catastrophe, disease or alien invasion.
Liberal support slipped.At the same time, the Greens benefited from the popularity of their unofficial leader and Germany's incumbent foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, as well as from fears of war and ecological worries stirred up by the floods.
For even when 20th-century progress is most undeniable, prediction suggests not a continued ascent, but the possibility, perhaps even the imminence, of some catastrophe: another and more lethal world war, an ecological disaster, a technology whose triumphs may make the world uninhabitable by the human species, or whatever current shape the nightmare may take.
On the instrumental side, those such as Tännsjö (2008) contend that a world government is necessary to overcome global problems such as war and ecological disaster.
This is especially true for potentially globalized phenomena such as nuclear war or ecological catastrophe that people cannot "opt out of" (Giddens, 1990, p. 84).
The full list of "risks that threaten human civilisation, according to Global Challenges Foundation: Extreme climate change Nuclear war Global pandemic Ecological catastrophe Global system collapse Major asteroid impact Super-volcano Synthetic biology Nanotechnology Artificial intelligence Unknown consequences Future bad global governance.
In all of Seeger's years of activism, through the workers' rights and civil rights movements, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the ecological movement, in all of which he figured prominently, there is no conceit he has more emphatically embraced than that all human beings are created equal.
Dethroning a political party whose forty-year domination brought us imperial war, financial bankruptcy, ecological suicide and near-dictatorship.
Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a horrific war, a global ecological crisis and an advancing economic collapse, what passes for the mass media is itself in collapse.
