"farming...fueled the rise of civilization... drove a wedge between humanity and nature. Gradually, agricultural societies came to see the living world less as a divinity and more as an enemy"

Forces of dominionism have swelled since animal domestication in the Middle East thousands of years ago. It has caused warfare and strife- government, theology, and religious practices exist as forms of social control (??)

-An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature & Each Other by Jim Mason

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