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History of Ideas: Thoreau

Past Present Future

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The Daily Mail's Definition of Eco-Protesters

The Daily Mail's term now that they've adopted for just stop oil and other eco-protesterss is eco morons here are the eco morons. Thoreau himself didn't just protest by refusing to pay tax and get locked up for one night he was much more active than that particularly against slavery. In 1859 Thoreau was one of the most vocal supporters of John Brown the man who's raid on Harper's Ferry was the most violent pre-civil war attempt to ferment a slave uprising. We might well already be on a path which is ruinous politically ruinous at some level morally ruinous that we are living unsustainable lives, says Julian Zelizer.

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