"Our great Western civilization, which has created the marvels we now enjoy, has only succeeded in producing them at a cost of corresponding ills. The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind."
-Claude Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques," 1973.
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