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I have always loved books where the author tries to squeeze the entire world into a few short pages. Carolyn Merchant starts her extraordinary book with the observation that women and nature are often associated with one anotherāthe nurturing motherāthen launches into an argument about how the exploitation of the Earth and the domination of women have the same root causes: capitalism, but also patriarchy.
Along the way, I learned about witches, old ideas of magic, and how mining in Europe was once considered sacrilege, a violation of the Earth. After reading this book, Iāll never see science or historyā¦
From Drew's list on environmental crisis and how to solve it.
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