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Quotes from Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals — John Gray

born 1948 England

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The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, 'Western civilisation' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

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