Article 4QTTT This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing | Jeff Sparrow

This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing | Jeff Sparrow

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Jeff Sparrow
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The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won't be stopped by symbolism

During the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares the lad for slaughter before God relents and tells him to offer a ram instead.

Owen's bitter poem rewrites the ending:

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