Kirkpatrick Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale is a cofounder of the New York Green Party, and contributing editor at the Nation. He lives in New York City.
— From July 1996
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
At The Altar Of Progress
It is characteristic of industrialism to make swift and thorough use of nature’s stored-up treasures and living organisms (called “resources”) without regard to the stability or sustainability of the world that provides them.
July 1996
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