“So far as we yet know, this is the only planet in the entire universe which has summoned forth life in all its brilliance and variety. To knowingly cut this flowering short is undoubtedly a crime, one more unspeakable even than the cruellest genocide or most destructive war. If each person is uniquely valuable, each species is surely more so. I can see no excuses for collaborating in such a crime. As the post-war Nuremberg trials established, ignorance is no defence; nor is merely following orders.”
For everyone who read The Water Will Come and decided they needed more details.
This book was chilling.
Published over ten years ago you can feel the urgency needed, the lines that have already been crossed.
Greta Thunberg is right, our house is on fire.
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