Thanks to humans the ‘wilderness’ no longer exists – but we can make things on Earth better | Jeff Sparrow
Written by Jeff Sparrow
Indigenous history shows there’s nothing inevitable about the environmental carnage being unleashed now
When the colonists arrived in Australia, they saw themselves as conquering both the continent’s land and its people. In many respects, they didn’t differentiate between the two.
The Bible commands believers (in Genesis 1:28) to “replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”.
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We can change how we relate to the world, the specific form of our engagement with the planet
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