"Just as in the late-19th century Gilded Age unregulated logging doomed the redwoods, rich and powerful tycoons today tied to industries different from timber but no less threatening to the land, like oil and gas and lithium mining, are bent on exerting the same sort of influence on public policy."
“Today, as the planet hurtles towards environmental and societal breakdown, brought about by the interlinked vectors of global warming, biodiversity loss, species extinctions and the spread of new pathogens. . .
it is becoming ever more evident that modernity was founded on a profoundly mistaken understanding of the world, and that the elevation of humans above all other species, and indeed the Earth itself, has had disastrous consequences for humanity as well as all other living Beings.” -Amitav Ghosh
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