georgephillip
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"'If we fail in this great experiment, this experiment of apes becoming intelligent enough to take charge of their own destiny, nature will shrug and say it was fun for a while to let the apes run the laboratory, but in the end it was a bad idea...'"
For the last 500 years white European and Euro-American ape-descendants have plundered, polluted, pillaged, and exploited planet Earth to the brink of extinction.
In his most recent post, Chris Hedges argues this particular Great Game is nearly at its end:
"But the game is up. The technical and scientific forces that created a life of unparalleled luxuryas well as unrivaled military and economic powerfor the industrial elites are the forces that now doom us. The mania for ceaseless economic expansion and exploitation has become a curse, a death sentence."
Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
For the last 500 years white European and Euro-American ape-descendants have plundered, polluted, pillaged, and exploited planet Earth to the brink of extinction.
In his most recent post, Chris Hedges argues this particular Great Game is nearly at its end:
"But the game is up. The technical and scientific forces that created a life of unparalleled luxuryas well as unrivaled military and economic powerfor the industrial elites are the forces that now doom us. The mania for ceaseless economic expansion and exploitation has become a curse, a death sentence."
Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig