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The tar sands shown in these photographs make me think of a cancer tumor erupting through my skin. Horrifying in its own right, it is just a portent of the more final devastation that is now inexorably under way throughout my body.

As the metastatic fever rises and parts of the organism begin to die, those of us who see the dissolution for what it is face the most important question of our lives. How will we live out our remaining time here, in the failing body of Mother Earth?


Canada’s shocking oilsands operation