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Humans and nature: obtaining independence or losing a friend?—Psychology of a conqueror—The renaissance revolution in worldviews—A mindset that leaves nature “out in the cold”—Degradation of nature; degradation of man—“Nature first died in people’s souls and minds”—Destruction of a destroyer.
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A misfire occurred, though after the successful Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions, when, due to an explosion in the command module of Apollo 13, it was forced to return home without completing a lunar landing. Luckily, the return flight was successful.
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Here, for example, is how one contemporary anthropologist looks upon the issue of suicide terrorism: “On its face, it is a previously unheard of critical-catastrophic trend in anthropology. This new frontier is not simply new, it is the last frontier. Whenever crises occurred in history—downfall and defeat, famine and pestilential plague—for centuries there existed the commonplace view that we could get over such crises with a surplus of what you might call anthropological endurance <...>. The new anthropological situation says, however, that the surplus of anthropological endurance is exhausted” (Khoruzhy 2002).
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Danilov-Danil’yan, V.I., Reyf, I.E. (2018). Humanity’s Spiritual Crisis as the Root Cause of the Ecological Challenge. In: The Biosphere and Civilization: In the Throes of a Global Crisis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67193-2_6
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