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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
The people being sacrificed/enslaved/imprisoned/colonized/left to die so that others can live comfortably are not the same level of human. They are other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized.
Adding more data won’t necessarily help correct the shoddy map once the map has become an engine. Instead, more of life will be exposed to the model’s distortions and simplifications, the brunt of which are borne by those without the power to dispute it.
The Lowest Tide
Rob Horning
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