"...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly."
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Russell Kirk was a prominent American conservative thinker known for his influential work 'The Conservative Mind,' which shaped modern conservative thought.
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"...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly."
"And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man."