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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (150288)11/15/2010 9:24:47 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 543103
 
“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
the final sentence of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe
in . . .

Kolbert has written that line in a couple of places. It's the sort of observation, given who Kolbert is, that simply pastes itself into your mind.


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