This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing | Jeff Sparrow
by Jeff Sparrow from on (#4QTTT)
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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