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December 30, 2004
This cartoon reverses the modernist conception of human beings as the masters of the universe, or the controllers of nature, who can bend nature to their will with a flick of their glittering technoscience.
Moir
The earthquake and tsunami highlight the modernist illusions of whipping nature into shape. Nature has real powers of its own.
A pity people do not take the ecological effects of greenhouse emissions and global warming on their region seriously.
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