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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
It seems that the bees, like the slime moulds and mycorrhizal networks, are already doing the kind of work that we struggle to accomplish with our own technologies. We have much to learn from them.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Time after time, in place after place, these conquerors have fragmented and demolished traditional communities, the beginnings of domestic cultures. They have always said that what they destroyed was outdated, provincial, and contemptible. And with alarming frequency they have been believed and trusted by their victims, especially when their victims were other white people.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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