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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Dead Justice Planet Social Social Justice Supporter

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If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Destroy Earth First Goodbye Justice Kiss Planet Social Social Justice Want You

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I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Easy Ever Life Make Myself Never Tried

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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Chains Clothes Clothing Created Life Need Our Parks People Selling Work

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When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Began Being Both Establishing Flew Funny Jewish Jewish State Nuclear Oddly Rumours Seriously Setting Site State States Taken Theories United United States Up Very Waste Were Which Working Would

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We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Carrying Doing Dues Earth Here Live Need Our Out Out Here Pay Rent Work

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Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Bad Capitalism Everyone Good May Sort Things Ultimately

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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Backwards Cell Cell Phone Culture Device Entire Everything Goes Hold Just Phone Production Seconds Think Through Up Without Wrapped You Your

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Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Around Been Cell Cell Phone Devices Dumber Function Get Immersed Imposed Just Logic Make Now Phone Requires System Us Use

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There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Again Capitalism Demonstrating Destroying Doubt Future More No Doubt No Future Old Over Than Whatsoever World Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 20th, 1943

Died: December 8th, 2015

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