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An accident of brain development stacked the deck against children: the mother had three or four years to fuck with your head before your hippocampus began recording lasting memories.
“The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“there is no Earth corresponding to the infinite horizon of the Global, but at the same time the Local is much too narrow, too shrunken, to accommodate the multiplicity of beings belonging to the terrestrial world.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Facts remain robust only when they are supported by a common culture, by institutions that can be trusted, by a more or less decent public life, by more or less reliable media.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“To the migrants from outside who have to cross borders and leave their countries behind at the price of immense tragedies, we must from now on add the migrants from inside who, while remaining in place, are experiencing the drama of seeing themselves left behind by their own countries.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
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