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[Little John]

... and a very nice chap he is.

The Dark Mountain manifesto is a great piece with which he was involved.

Lines such as:

For a very long time, we imagined that ‘nature’ was something that happened elsewhere. The damage we did to it might be regrettable, but needed to be weighed against the benefits here and now.

describe virtually everyone I know. I have the distinct feeling that people do not regard themselves as part of the planet, nor regard themselves as equally an animal as any other. This, of course, permits - encourages even - the unlimited horrors humans blithely inflict.

I blame religion. Well, at least partly.

Certainly the monotheistic ones, yes. But, then the monotheistic secular "isms" (capitalism etc) are also equally guilty.

Basically, any ideology which claims to have a singular answer and which puts human affairs central and above all others