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We are still the Victorians

April 22, 2015 By Ying Leave a Comment

Hello, friends. Today is Earth Day - a useful time to reflect upon what our environment is like, what might happen to our world in the future, and how things used to be. As you know, I think we're a lot more like the Victorians than we'd prefer to believe. It's so comforting to view them as boring, prudish, ignorant dinosaurs. It's so flattering to congratulate ourselves upon how much we've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Write Tagged With: A Spy in the House, Earth Day, Great Stink of 1858, Industrial Revolution, John Ruskin, pollution, Victoriana

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