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Environmental action must never be allowed to become a figleaf for other forms of oppression. The spectacle of the Israeli Defense Forces creating grated passages through the apartheid wall to permit the passage of small mammals while continuing to degrade, suffocate and cut short Palestinian lives only serves to underscore the racism and inhumanity of such barriers, and the regimes which install them.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Over and over again, spring after spring, the questing mind, idealist and visionary, must pass through the planting to become nurturer of the real.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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