i want to ask you the meaning of flaying off in this sentence below:
Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth, on gouging out its riches, on flaying off its life-sustaining skin

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i want to ask you the meaning of flaying off in this sentence below:
Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth, on gouging out its riches, on flaying off its life-sustaining skin

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'to flay' means 'to strip skin off. As you would have to do with a rabbit for example, before you can roast it ; I don't know what the 'life-sustaining skin' is symbolising in this case; it might be the atmosphere, the rain forest,  minerals or natural riches, available at the surface of the earth.

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