Environmentalism is not about saving nature, but saving civilization.
Environment
Nowadays, we designate wildernesses instead of discover them.
In the beginning, humanity solves the problems nature made; in the end, the problems our own ingenuity made.
Oil barons who plundered Alaska’s tundras, over millions of years dissolve into oil themselves.
Developers build because parents beget. Suburbs sprawl because lovers do.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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