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El capitaloceno: Una historia radical de la crisis climática

by Francisco Serratos

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“I am not by any means wholly opposed to the ideas involved, though i think that these are more naturally expressed in another way.”
― Arthur Tansley

tags: ecology, philosophy

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“As soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be.”
― William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

tags: nature, philosophy

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“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“The dream of an unworked natural landscape is very much the fantasy of people who have never themselves had to work the land to make a living.”
― William Cronon

tags: environment, nature, philosophy

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“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.”
― Chris Marker

tags: sans-soleil

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