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...them, gay rights assaults Islamic virtue and communal integrity, and the HRW claims are simply ethical imperialism. Dr. Onuma Yasuaki, University of Tokyo law professor, notes that “for those who have experienced colonial rule and interventions under such beautiful slogans as humanity and civilization??, human rights look like more slogans to rationalize intervention. Human rights are tough to traffic wholesale. As for the case last Friday, if human rights defenders desire liberties and immunities for the AIDS activists they must engage supportive elements of Shar’ia law, making their advocacy culturally palpable, even...
...sponsored have allowed Harvard to host speakers from all over the world.” In addition to the importance of a global perspective, Schrag also emphasized the need for both “economists, engineers, and scientists” and “experts in cultures and civilization?? to bring diverse expertise to the problem. “To me,” he said, “Bank of America’s sponsorship is just a small piece of what I hope will be a broadening portfolio of energy and environment-related activities over...
...centerpiece of this doomsday vision is the idea that civilization??which he defines as “a way of life characterized by the growth of cities”—is inherently unsustainable because it requires an ever-expanding input of resources and involves the wholesale destruction of nature. All social, technological, and political efforts to alleviate environmental problems are futile; instead, we should prepare ourselves for the fallout by learning about nature, so as to live peacefully without the squalid human world, using only “what the land gives willingly...
...measures of environmental health: Air quality in the States has improved over the last 30 years, the release of toxic chemicals into the environment has dropped, and scientists have never been able to reliably measure water quality. His theory instead relies on the arrogant assumption that “civilization??—the product of billions of individuals’ decisions and actions—can be boiled down to one big apocalyptic bang...
...this modern disillusionment with a doctrine of apocalypse and redemption. In Jensen’s eco-feminist world, “nature” stands in for the divine entity; Gaia is the force for good, the all-embracing mother in a terrible violent world. “Civilization?? is the rapist, the pillager, the lustful Satan. Jensen’s world gives everything meaning in the way that he taps into a feeling that many people share...