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Humanity's meltdown

Posted on June 26, 2008

By Guest authorThis is a guest essay from Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire and Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- Farewell to the Holocene Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. This February, while cranes were hoisting cladding to the 141st floor of the Burj Dubai tower (which will soon be twice...

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