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"...and it asks us
to pretend to believe that things will end up sorting themselves
out, that, in the place of our guardians, we would do the same
thing, and that our own task is limited to insulating our houses,
changing our lightbulbs, etc., but also to continue buying cars
because growth has to be supported."
Sayfa 31
“keep consuming, economic growth depends on it”
but “think about your carbon footprint”; “you have to realize that
our lifestyles will have to change” but “don’t forget that we are
engaged in a competition on which our prosperity depends.”
Sayfa 32
"It is a matter here of thinking intrusion, not belonging."
Sayfa 44
"How is one to maintain the imperative of “freeing economic growth,” of “winning” in the grand economic competition, while the future will define this type of growth as irresponsible, even criminal?"
Sayfa 21
"To name Gaia is to name the necessity
of resisting this temptation, the necessity of starting out from the acceptance of this testing challenge: we do not have any choice, because she will not wait."
Sayfa 50
"Gaia then is thus more than ever well named, because if she
was honored in the past it was as the fearsome one, as she who was addressed by peasants, who knew that humans depend on something much greater than them, something that tolerates them, but with a tolerance that is not to be abused. She was from well before the cult of maternal love, which pardons everything. A mother perhaps but an irritable one, who should not be offended. And she was also from before the Greeks conferred on their gods a sense of the just and the unjust, before they attributed to them a particular interest in our destinies. It was a matter instead of paying attention, of not offending them, not abusing their tolerance."
Sayfa 45 - the gaia is referred here as "she", which indicates the feminen attributes