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“The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
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“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Familiar letters
― Familiar letters
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
― Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
― Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
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“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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