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A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses ...

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They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...

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Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed...

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Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when ap...

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The future says:Dear mortals;I know you are busy with your colourful lives;I have no wish to waste t...

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One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a c...

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Noam ChomskyClass Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian

There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are ve...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media th...

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Noam ChomskyNuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the ...

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If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, y...

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Paul HawkenBlessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

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Vandana ShivaSoil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

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If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

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Derrick JensenDeep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interestin...

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The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

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We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

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We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

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If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

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The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

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So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

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I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

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Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

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Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

It cannot be described, this awesome chain of events that depopulated the whole Earth; the range is ...

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