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“They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed to do; quite likely the world will collapse and disappear under water; but at least that will happen for political and economic reasons we can all understand, at least it will happen with the help of science, technology and public opinion, with human ingenuity of all sorts! Not some cosmic catastrophe but just the same old reasons to do with the struggle for power and money and so on. There’s nothing we can do about that.”

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Book:War with the Newts
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War with the Newts

Czech author Karel Čapek's satirical novel delves into the consequences of human greed and the misuse of technology, focusing on the rise of a newt-based industry and its impact on society. more

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