Burnaby, 26 April 2014 — “To be modern is to destroy the world of nature,” declared Dr Seyyed Hossein Nasr. “That’s the great tragedy of it.”
Delivering the inaugural Ismaili Centre International Lecture at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby, the renowned intellectual and pioneering environmental philosopher said that modern forces are preventing a meaningful response to the environmental crisis in favor of economic interests.
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