We’ve almost stopped killing each other. Now let’s spare the planet | George Monbiot
by George Monbiot from Environment | The Guardian on (#XSJP)
The astonishing drop in violence between human beings needs to be matched by an end to violence against the natural world
This is humanity's great paradox: we are the only animal capable of sustained empathy and altruism towards unrelated beings - and we are the only animal that murders so many of its own kind, and lays waste to the planet it inhabits.
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