American - Businessman | March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015
Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.
Douglas Tompkins
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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
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There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.
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If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.
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Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
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I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.
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If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
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I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
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We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.
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The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.
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If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.
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