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Scott Wallace


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Scott Wallace is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist whose career covering national and international affairs spans the past three decades. He gained an early reputation for gutsy reporting from the battlefronts and barricades of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Panama in the 1980s, where he filed for CBS News Radio and a succession of print outlets that included the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Newsweek, the Independent of London, and Manchester/London Guardian.

Scott’s assignments have taken him from Afghanistan’s windswept Wakhan Corridor to the Alaskan Arctic, from the clandestine arms bazaars of the former Soviet Union to midnight raids on suspected fedayeen hideouts in the ...more

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“For all the illusions of freedom our society promotes, rarely do we have the chance to step outside it long enough to gain some distance. Beyond the fatuous talk about liberty and the price our founders paid for it, I wondered: How free were we if we’d become so dependent on the comforts produced by industry that we couldn’t do without them?”
― Scott Wallace, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
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“The absence of peaceful contact meant they were still “virgin soil populations,” as vulnerable to the communicable diseases that evolved over millennia on the Eurasian landmass—measles, flu, tuberculosis, pneumonia, even the common cold—as were the very first Taino encountered by Columbus on Hispaniola.”
― Scott Wallace, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
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“Which smells more—one piece of shit or two? Take deforestation. You cut down the forests, and you destroy the flora, the fauna, the rivers. Gold extraction is concentrated along the rivers. It pollutes the water, kills off the fish. It’s all the same shit. It all stinks equally.” Tomorrow”
― Scott Wallace, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
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