“Western liberals have comforted themselves by contorting their own consumption patterns into performances of moral or environmental purity—less beef, more Teslas, fewer transatlantic flights.”
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“We still live within the propaganda of human progress and generational improvement.”
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“I is now estimated that New York City will suffer “500-year” floods once every twenty-five…”
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