Tag: JohnRuskin
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Industrialization degrading Earth (and Middle-earth) for 140 years
“the frenzy of avarice… poisoning our children, and blasting the cultivable surface… into a treeless waste of ashes.” John Ruskin, 1876 “… the new mill in all its frowning and dirty ugliness: a great brick building straddling the stream, which it fouled with a steaming and stinking outflow … they pour out filth a purpose;…
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Building the Throughline Between “The Lord of the Rings” and Real-World History
4 simple questions link environmentalists across past and present, through reality and fiction.