Ora riesco meglio a spiegare il fenomeno degli animalisti più dispiaciuti per la morte di un gatto che per la morte di una persona (non bianca ovviamente). Mi pare rappresenti un coerente ritorno alle origini del pensiero animalista e ambientalista.
"This might have been incisive irony, but in the same paragraph Muir was more concerned with human perfidy toward bears (“Poor fellows, they have been poisoned, trapped, and shot at until they have lost confidence in brother man”) than with how Native Americans had been killed and driven from their homes".