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Ekolodzy wydają się być zamknięci w niekończącej się bitwie z lobbystami paliw kopalnych. Ale wcześniejsze apokaliptyczne narracje oferują inne odczytanie konfliktów, które wymagają zdecydowanej zmiany perspektywy.
Greta Thunberg oskarżyła uczestników Światowego Forum Ekonomicznego 2023 o “podsycanie zniszczenia planety”. G. Thunberg, wywiad przed dorocznym spotkaniem Światowego Forum Ekonomicznego w Davos, Szwajcaria, 19 stycznia 2023 r., https://www.commondreams.org/news/davos-greta-thunberg.
G. Thunberg, interview outside World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, 19 January 2023, https://www.commondreams.org/news/davos-greta-thunberg
Ibid.
G. Thunberg, 19 January 2023, https://www.commondreams.org/news/davos-greta-thunberg
Alcaeus, fr. 6a [P. Oxy. 1789 1 i 15–19, ii 1–17, 3 i, 12 + 2166(e)4] https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/01/07/the-ship-of-state-operated-by-fools/ Alcaeus, fr. 6a
Plato, The Republic,. Book VI,. 488a–489d.
The book is titled Narrenschiff in its 1494 German original and Stultifera Navis in its first Latin translation from 1497.
S. Brant, The Ship of Fools, Dover Publications, 1962, p. 61.
F. Perisauli, De triumpho stultitiae, Venice, 1524, 133v (translation by the author).
J. Ferguson, Bibliographical note on the "De Triumpho Stvltitiae" of Perisaulus Faustinus, John Bale & Sons, 1890.
S. S. Menchi, Erasmo in Italia, 1520-1580, Bollati Boringhieri, 1987, p. 363.
H. C. Agrippa, De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, Antwerp, 1530.
R. Fludd, Apologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis …. Leyden, 1616, p.3. ‘Waves’ in the Latin original is ‘fluctibus’ – a pun with the Latin penname of the author, Robertus Fluctibus.
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