According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 95 percent of the world’s calories now come from 30 species.13 Of 30,000 edible plant species, we cultivate about 150.14 And of the more than 30 birds and
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“A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
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