Paul Shepard - ‘Coming Home to the Pleistocene’

…. the City continues to depend on the material production (of the countryside), but also on the social practices that create an explosive democracy that feeds the corporate and industrial exploitation of the earth.

This weeks Green Thought is taken from pages 4 - 5 of the late (1925-1996) American ecologist and author Paul Shepard’s 1998 book  ‘Coming Home to the Pleistocene’.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926475.Coming_Home_to_the_Pleistocene