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A Walk on the Uninhabited, Desolate NW Hawaiian Islands, 2 of 2
- "It was the same story on almost every island we explored during this expedition. Although thousands of miles from the nearest outpost of civilization, the landscape is littered with the discarded products of human society: cigarette lighters, golf balls, glass, rubber, toothbrushes, clothespins...the list is endless, and dispiriting. I am reminded of the title of a book by the philosopher, Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil. For these are not ruins of a heroic age, but middens of a culture of distraction and disposability. They are mundane, trivial, unnecessaryand fatal." - excerpt from the article, "A Walk Among Ruins," by Jean-Michel Cousteau, at http://www.oceanfutures.org/features/2003/dispatch_09_03_b.asp
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