But remember, we're stuck light-years from the nearest industrial civilization.

You do need to be very romantic to accept the industrial civilisation.

Light pollution is a side effect of industrial civilization.

We are laying the foundation of a new industrial civilization.

"A fleet uses a lot of metal, but it's not really very much compared to an entire industrial civilization's resources."

We reach back through millions of years for the deposits that fuel our industrial civilization.

For the first few years the industrial civilization ran faster than ever, but in the high fever of war, living on its own substance.

They were a crucial aspect of industrial civilization in the two previous centuries.

Today we use these same materials and complex bulk processes to make the products of our global industrial civilization.

No great industrial civilization, he writes, has so systematically poisoned its land, water and people.