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10 - Ceasing Arrogance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Laurence L. Delina
Laurence L. Delina
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Humans assume they are superior to nature. There is no better place to see this arrogance than in the affluent societies of the Minority World. The COVID-19 pandemic ignored arbitrarily defined geographical borders and the fantasy of fake prosperity was shattered as the coronavirus raged. Never again will we resort to this myth created on the backs of people in the Majority World and propped up by environmental plunder. The arrogance of control and superiority have to cease.

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food systemsfood insecurityfake prosperitycolonialismtechnofixeshope
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COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
Confronting Cascading Crises in the Age of Consequences
 , pp. 93 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Ceasing Arrogance
  • Laurence L. Delina, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Book: COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974455.011
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