“In the west, we believe we are the most progressive and socially just, but a lot of that is just a hopeful illusion.”

— Barry Lopez

On the West’s environmental thinking in “'We're living in emergency times': nature writer Barry Lopez's dire warning” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/07/barry-lopez-horizons-environment-climate-change in The Guardian (2019 May 7)

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