“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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Are you really a "British philosopher?" It's a beautiful essay. It's wonderful to see these conversations surfacing in the more popular media (if you can call the New Yorker that). When you talk about the "feel" of the ice melting in Paris, you begin to connect with anyone who can feel ice melting.
Another angle of keeping the conversation going ....
Rock, pollution and global warming...
Songs can motivate interest that humanity is about to make an end to itself and prevent the suicide:
http://pittsburghmusicmagazine.com/2015/09/29/denmarks-the-aparte-project-releases-new-single-armageddon-avenue/
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