Kenneth Clark's Civilisation 1/13 The Skin of Our Teeth

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One reviewer goes: "Despite being enthralling you are hearing the views of a conservative wealthy middle aged white man, born of the British Empire. A Protestant who converted to Catholicism on his death bed." Is he right to focus on this?

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hartfire

Clark uses an extremely old-fashioned definition of "civilisation", as if it were a superior thing - whereas the reality has always include war, oppression and the gradual increase of the destruction of the natural environment - to the point where, now, we have climate change, mass extinctions of species and an existential threat to this round of evolution.
The rate of global warming will speed up exponentially with the increasing quantities of methane released from the melting permafrost of the arctic and subarctic regions. The current rate multiplies ten times with each passing year.
If this is "civilisation", I'd say it's doomed without first respecting the laws of physics.

redredred · M

@hartfire just for kicks

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/arctic-sea-ice-second-highest-18-years-end-2021-rrc/

val70 · 51-55

@hartfire Plenty of great civilisations that went down in the past because of nature. You think that those civilisations were any less then? Perhaps the worldview is old-fashioned but then again isn't it better to have art and artists than not?