The strongest challenges to this worldview have always come from outside its logic, in those historical… — Naomi Klein
The strongest challenges to this worldview have always come from outside its logic, in those historical junctures when the extractive project clashes directly with a different, older way of relating to the earth—and that older way fights back. p. 177
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