Is Civilization a Bad Idea?

Is Civilization a Bad Idea?

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We don’t want to ask the question: Is civilization good for you (or me)? Instead we want to ask: Is civilization good—in the long term—for planets and their capacity to support life (or at least technologically adept civilizations)? In other words, we want to frame the question of sustainability in an astrobiological setting.