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Anthropocene
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We have to bring about peace between ourselves to safeguard the world and peace with the world in order to save ourselves.
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― Branches: A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent
― Branches: A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent
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A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount of sediment moved each year by Earth’s natural erosive processes, which is to say rivers grinding away sand and sending it down towards the sea. Humans, in other words, are a considerably bigger geological force than nature itself, and have been, according to the data, ever since 1955. Or – another w
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― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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