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But we soon found that “the cupboard was bare,” and then the genie of plunder arose and such a scene ensued as I fancy has never yet been equalled.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmereremergencemagazine.org
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Between 1973 and 1992 alone, audits show that the BIA stole or lost more than $2.4 billion of Indian money—from oil, gas, timber, and grazing leases. And that’s for just nineteen of the roughly 150 years that the BIA has been managing Indian money.
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Unleashed on such fresh environments, Old World domesticates went into reproductive overdrive, even going feral again in some cases. Outgrowing and out-grazing local flora and fauna, they began to turn native ecosystems on their heads, creating ‘Neo-Europes’ – carbon copies of European environments, of the sort one sees today when driving through t
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Similar ecological disasters occurred on almost every one of the thousands of islands that pepper the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
