158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Nature in the Environment
I've always had a tenuous relationship with the environmental kind of activism because what I saw in it was something of an extreme kind of coming out. The idea of nature as a value in itself, like the idea of nature, the idea of the wild, you could say. In traditional society there's a reasonable balance between the human and the non-human world. You don't have to romanticize nature, but you don't demonize it either. And that's a question of respect for creation, which humans don't respect.
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