Word: humankind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this very moment a spectacular change in Christian theology is taking place, virtually unnoticed. God's very first commandment to humankind in the book of Genesis is being redefined. 'Dominion," which Christian theology has used so long to justify people's unrestrained pillage and exploitation of the natural world, has suddenly and dramatically been reinterpreted. Now, according to the now definition, God's first instruction to the human race is to serve as steward and protestor over all of his creation...
Most alien of all is Mark Linn-Baker's Puck, a nasty demon who sticks his tongue out and rasps at friend and foe. His satyr's outfit and white makeup don't distance him from humankind nearly so much as his utter indifference to pain and suffering in others. When Oberon orders him to undo the effects of his mistake on the lovers and to anoint Lysander's eyes with the potion that will restore his love for Hermia, he nearly fouls up again and gives Demetrius the charm. He says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" spitefully...
Three-quarters of humankind is living on only one-fifth of the world's income. The commission report adds that 800 million people exist in desperate poverty. One American today uses as much commercial energy as nine Mexicans, 16 Chinese or 1,072 Nepalese. More than 90% of the total manufacturing capacity is located in wealthy developed countries, which increasingly block imports of industrial products from the poor nations. The explosion of oil prices has pushed the needy countries into a bleak house of poverty. The combined debt of the Third World has grown from $70 billion...
...overriding issue for me since 1945 has been control of nuclear weapons. All issues, foreign and domestic--and in the United States the two cannot be disentangled--are judged by me in terms of the degree to which they contribute to increasing or decreasing the vulnerability of humankind to destruction both of its people and of its means of subsistence through a nuclear exchange and the increased proliferation of nuclear weapons. Judged in these terms, the 1970s were a terrible decade...