Sublime

Nous assistons à la lutte entre d’un côté le nouveau désir de l’ordre, de la discipline et de la sobriété et de l’autre la vie joyeuse et l’ancienne acceptation du destin.

Most important: Can we begin to restore the health and integrity of the local earth? Not without restorying the local earth.

so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.

The Indians, then, who had the wisdom and the grace to live in this country for perhaps ten thousand years without destroying or damaging any of it, needed for their travels no more than a footpath; but their successors, who in a century and a half plundered the area of at least half its topsoil and virtually all of its forest, felt immediately tha

Countries would have to abide by international codes of conduct on workers’ rights and environmental protections which would stipulate basic protections such as minimum wages, maximum hours of work, rights to representation, and non-discrimination by race and sex, as well as the regulation of air and water emissions, toxic wastes, etc.

vigil

A landmark event for Chinese environmental history was the halting – or shelving – of the massive Nu river dam project in 2004, as discussed in Chapter 7 (see Maps 7.1a and 7.1b). The event was important for various reasons, including the collective action taken not only by the Chinese groups but also by international NGOs and groups and government