Article: Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases

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Article: Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases

Lately I hear a lot of people claiming that “primitive” people were endlessly suffering from disease and died at young age. Well, here’s some news from the immunology section. When

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Article: If Children Lose Contact with Nature They Won’t Fight for It

Old article, current topic: I think this shows pretty good where we can start to change things – with the right education of our kids. It is time to realize

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Article: Jarawa Hunter-Gatherers Forced into Civilization

The Jarawa of the Andaman Islands are one of the few surviving tribes that live a sustainable life in harmony with their environment. The aggressive expansionist character of our society

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Article: The Cetacean Brain and Hominid Perceptions of Cetacean Intelligence

More evidence to shatter the arrogant anthropocentric world view: It is very likely that we humans are not the most intelligent creatures on earth. We often associate intelligence with tool

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Article: The Movement to Dismantle Civilization

Good argumentation for our case: permaculture and several anti-civilization movements (such as Deep Green Resistance) have a lot more in common than everyone thinks. The main premises and motivations point

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Article: Ted Kaczynski And Why He Matters

The long read: Without Kaczynski I wouldn’t be where I am today. His famous manifesto (“Industrial Society and Its Future”) got me started on my path, he showed me that

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Article: Animal Intelligence Has Been Widely Underestimated, Says Primatologist Frans De Waal

The Washington Post spreading primitivist ideas: We are not as special as we think we are. Human arrogance led us to believe we are hovering far above nature, which we

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Article: Murdered for Defending Thailand’s Environment

Unbelievable. Environmentalism in Thailand can easily kill you. What does this teach us about the method of activism? The industry shows their true face in countries where money can solve

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Article: The Tribe on the Front Line in the Battle to Save Indonesia’s Forests

The Orang Rimba – another tribe on the brink of extinction. Every other culture gets crushed under the wheels of our own cultural juggernaut. This has been going on for

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Article: Forced Contact With Amazon People Would Be ‘Genocide’

How arrogant are the people of our culture – what’s so difficult about leaving them alone if they don’t want any contact? Can’t they speak for themselves and know what’s

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