Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1876) |
Karl Abraham, Psychologist (1925) |
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Karel Capek, Writer (1938) |
W. C. Fields, Comedian (1946) |
James Gadsden, Politician (1858) |
Matthew Hale, Historian (1676) |