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Behind the environment crisis in the U.S. are a few deeply ingrained assumptions. One is that nature exists primarily for man to conquer. Many thinkers have traced the notion back to early Judaism and Christianity. Genesis 1: 26 is explicit on the point that God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth." The ecological truth is quite different. The great early civilizations ?Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Chinese, Indian and perhaps Mayan?over-exploited the basic resource of land. In the end, says...
...conflict with "a father-figure, some person of authority." Mao Tse-tung is warned to "beware of unleashing vital forces you might have trouble controlling." After an unsuccessful brush with passion, Gamal Abdel Nasser will "see a dream come true. You will assert yourself, push forward and conquer." No word on Israel's Golda Meir...
Sniffs, Chuckles. Reaction to the Murdoch mixture on Fleet Street, where the news a paper makes is sometimes more important than the news it prints, has ranged from raised eyebrows to winks. The conservative Sunday Telegraph sniffed at his stoop-to-conquer approach: "Be warned, Mr. Murdoch. The British are not all sheep, fit only for an Australian abattoir." A writer in the conservative Spectator chuckled: "All newspapers now are in for a lively time. The chips are down. You might even say the clothes are off too." The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially...
...group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer...
...overt invert, and a band of other young men, Alexander himself remains pure, sublimated and inevitably prissy. He not only has no faults; he has no appetites, an odd condition for a young hero who, according to popular legend, later wept because he had no more worlds to conquer.* The result is an important vacuum at the book's center that is methodically filled by a lot of learning-which can be a dangerous thing...