One shock would be the sheer press of humanity.
The press of humanity on the Florida Keys means there are far fewer game fish than in Mr. Flagler's day.
The temple owes its thinness, in part, to the contrasting thickness amassed outside its gates: the press of humanity, the freestyle traffic, the unrelenting noise and, in general, the controlled anarchy that is urban India.
He described the press of humanity: mostly blacks and Puerto Ricans, and often alcoholics, drifters and the mentally ill, who paid the agencies perhaps 50 cents for a $5-a-day 5-a-day
Yet even with the press of humanity, it's not all that hard to find pockets of quiet civility -- just avoid sunset at the summit of Cadillac Mountain (the island's highest peak, at 1,530 feet), seek out the lesser-known trails and strike out early in the morning, when you can have the rocky coast to yourself.
However, most of the bad press is really humanity's own fault through failing to take responsibility for how we have transformed the world in ways that favour certain rodent pest species.
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They are helping to create a world where humanity presses less hard on the planet that supports us, and where the economy requires less struggle and gives more opportunity for exploration, reflection, and self-expression.
A version of the reader, featuring academic and curatorial texts on photomediations, will be published in a stand-alone book form later in 2015, in collaboration with Open Humanities Press.
Lives can be ruined both by insufficiency and excess as humanity is pressed into the service not of a force of nature but of an economic order that showers its rewards with promiscuous disregard for where they may fall.
