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Encyclopedia > Alliance to Rescue Civilization

The Alliance to Rescue Civilization is an organization devoted to the establishment an off-Earth backup of human civilization. This facility, or group of facilities, would serve to repopulate the Earth after a worldwide disaster or war, preserving as much as possible of both the sciences and the arts. Backup in computer engineering refers to the copying of data for the purpose of having an additional copy of an original source. ...


It was founded by the author and journalist William E. Burrows and the biochemist Robert Shapiro. Robert Leslie Shapiro (born September 2, 1942 in Plainfield, New Jersey), is a high-profiled attorney who is most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O. J. Simpson from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman in 1994 (the trial...


References

  • The Alliance to Rescue Civilization - An Organizational Framework

External links

  • ARC website

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The pre-Aryan Harappan civilization in the Indus valley seems to have had many feminine and egalitarian qualities, but unfortunately without writing little is known of their history and beliefs.
Civilization developed size and power in the Near East, but the almost continual violence of warfare in societies ruled by kings promoted too much injustice and suffering to be stable and offer many people a good life.
Civilization in ancient India must have had a worthy beginning in the Harappan culture of the Indus valley to be able to sustain such spiritual values after the Aryan invasion of the subcontinent established a racist culture based on an increasingly rigid caste system.
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