[BCFSN] Fwd: Race and the Science of Starvation; The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans; The Postwar Kitchen

[Kathleen Gibson]

Yeah I just read Stray Thoughts and had the same reaction as Jan.  I'm
always interested to hear from anyone trying to see forward and around
corners, but, like Jan, I think Solow is missing the fundamental problem
that our economic systems are predicated on cannibalizing our environment
and this is the program we need to change.

I am interested in hearing from people who "follow the money" and have
found political economist Mark Blyth's exposition helpful.  His recent lecture
at McMaster <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0> is also presented
in a CBC radio Ideas program
<https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/global-trumpism-bailouts-brexit-and-battling-climate-change-1.5321199>.
New Ideas host Nahlah Ayed is kicking Ideas programs up a welcome notch.

Thanks, Abra, for introducing MIT press offerings to the listserv!  I liked
the mix.

Kathleen Gibson




On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:37 AM Jan Steinman <Jan at ecoreality.org> wrote:

> Thank you for that, Abra!
>
> I was especially glad to read Mark Dowie's "The Myth of a Wilderness
> Without Humans." It really reflects what I thought was my unique view. I'm
> glad to find that others are thinking that way, too. This reflects my
> thoughts that the First Nations people on un-ceded lands are our last hope.
>
> But then I went on to read "Stray Thoughts: Nobel Laureate Robert Solow’s
> Predictions for the Next Century" and I got depressed. Yet Another
> Economist, ignoring basic physical, natural fundamentals. "Energy" doesn't
> even appear in his essay. "Nonrenewable" appears only once.
>
> An economist is someone who, upon encountering a stadium full of 107,000
> destitute, penniless people, come to hear a talk by Bill Gates, says,
> "Isn't the economy doing great? On average, here's a stadium full of
> millionaires!" (When I first made up this joke less than a decade ago,
> there were only 45,001 people in the stadium…)
>
> Jan
>
>
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