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Alliance to Rescue Civilization

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The Alliance to Rescue Civilization was an organization devoted to the establishment of 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 both the sciences and the arts. The organization had called for such a backup facility to be built on the Moon in lieu of NASA's plan to return there no earlier than 2026.[1]

It was founded by the author and journalist William E. Burrows and the biochemist Robert Shapiro. The organization was absorbed into the Lifeboat Foundation in 2007.[2]

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  1. ^ "Armageddon Insurance: Scientist Call for Earth 'Backup' on Moon". Der Spiegel. 29 August 2007 – via Spiegel Online.
  2. ^ Burrows, William E. (February 2, 2007). "Colonize the Moon". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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