History of Ideas: Thoreau
Past Present Future
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The Importance of Consciousness in Democracy
The ability to do it with symbolic force that thorough was able to deploy in the 1840s is probably lost and yet i still think thorough speaks to something now. A lot of us spend a lot of our time worrying about and complaining about aspects of environmental politics not everyone but almost everyone are deeply concerned about climate, he says. The interplay between climate change and institutional failure which is the great risk that we run as the climate gets worse will become more attenuated or shrill according to Thoreau.
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