Last Saturday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper featured an exclusive article about a conversation between Philip Pullman and journalist Andrew Simms about Pullman’s environmentalism. Amongst other things Pullman speaks of the first time he realised that there was a problem with the climate and environment. You can read the article in full here.
Philip Pullman’s New Brand of Environmentalism
January 22, 2008
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they r they are going for the guiness book of records….
“If the polar bears leapt from the pages of my fiction into reality and saw what was happening, they’d eat us. Eat as many of us as quickly as they possibly could. And good luck to them.”
“If the kitty cats leapt from the pages of my fiction into reality and saw what was happening, they’d eat us. Eat as many of us as quickly as they possibly could. And good luck to them.†he he he sorry
“Magnificent” Interesting though, that its only an extract of a longer interview – published in full in Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? Really want to read the whole thing
“That’s what I reckon, but it won’t happen because governments are too feeble. Governments are feeble now because all the Western governments have bought into the orthodoxy that the market knows best. And the market bloody well doesn’t know best, the market is what got us into this mess.
Every social bond, everything that we thought was firm and established, gets wiped away. It is wiped away by money, by the mighty force, this universal acid of the market system. Magnificent.”
So he’s one of those.. That’s unfortunate. I still like his books :).