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Daniel Quinn:
Daniel, thanks for your wonderful books. Do you think we can really do anything about the scourge of civilization? Isn't it too late to go back to something sustainable, beyond a total apocalyptic event?
Daniel Quinn
In an attempt to answer to your question, I spent a day trying to write a synopsis of the book I’m currently working on—a waste of time and a foolish thing to attempt.
We’re in the midst of a Sixth Extinction as dire as the Fifth that 66 million years ago carried off 75% of all species living at that time (most famously the great dinosaurs). Is it conceivable that this present "apocalyptic event" could be prevented from becoming "total"? Yes, it’s conceivable. That is, I have conceived it. Conceived it as a thing to be done, not a spectacular butchery as might be imagined by Hollywood screenwriters but a measured procedure performed by the people of the world on themselves without remorse or compunction, never to be repeated, with an expectation of success that will be confirmed and compounded from the first day to the clearly-defined last.
We’re in the midst of a Sixth Extinction as dire as the Fifth that 66 million years ago carried off 75% of all species living at that time (most famously the great dinosaurs). Is it conceivable that this present "apocalyptic event" could be prevented from becoming "total"? Yes, it’s conceivable. That is, I have conceived it. Conceived it as a thing to be done, not a spectacular butchery as might be imagined by Hollywood screenwriters but a measured procedure performed by the people of the world on themselves without remorse or compunction, never to be repeated, with an expectation of success that will be confirmed and compounded from the first day to the clearly-defined last.
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