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For empathy to be activated, a witness has to interpret someone else’s pain and see it as similar to their own. When Black pain not only is seen as dissimilar to the viewer but also gives them pleasure—when our bodies have been defined as
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“The real triggers for epidemic and pandemics are the societal organization and society-driven human/animal contacts and amplification loops provided by the modern human society, i.e., contacts, land conversion, markets, international trade, mobility, etc.” In that “etc.” lies our future.”
― Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
― Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.”
― My Family and Other Animals
― My Family and Other Animals
“Quammen compares the human population explosion to an outbreak of tent caterpillars. As we cut down deep forests and convert wild places to feed lots and drained swamp to cropland we encounter other species—birds, mammals, reptiles, bacteria and viruses—alien viruses whose hosts and habitats we have severely disrupted and displaced, so that viruses such as SARS, Ebola, MERS, the cluster of “swine flus” and Covid-19 are forced to find other places, other hosts including humans.”
― Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
― Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.”
― Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
― Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
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