‘the perfect symmetry between the dismantling of the wall of shame and the end of limitless Nature is invisible only to the rich Western democracies. The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have been able to save their peoples and some of their countryside’s by destroying the rest of the world and reducing its people to abject poverty. Hence a double tragedy: the former socialist societies think they can solve their problems by imitating the West; the West thinks it is the sole possessor of the clever trick that will allow it to keep on winning indefinitely, whereas it has perhaps already lost everything."
bruno latour.
not sure I agree with every word, but that end bit is quite on point…
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