"The bulk of our food production on this planet is dependent to some extent or another on oil or products of oil, so this goes right to the heart of,frankly, the way our society functions,"

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Now, Tocqueville was of course responding from his own kind of French aristocratic heart, to some extent.

这里托克维尔当然或多或少是站在自己,作为一名法国贵族的角度来发表评论的

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