“If you want to think about why humans are so dangerous to other species, you can picture a poacher…”
“If you want to think about why humans are so dangerous to other species, you can picture a poacher in Africa carrying an AK-47 or a logger in the Amazon gripping an ax, or, better still, you can picture yourself, holding a book on your lap.”
– Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Tags: but yeah, or in my case, an iPad mini running the kindle app, this was an interesting point I wasn't expecting her to make, and it's certainly supported by some of the things she talks about, it's not necessarily a strong scientific case that she makes, because it's not that kind of book.
