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Colin Duncan: Too Hot to Handle? (3 posts)

  1. chrisc
    Member

    So far this audio sounds good, I haven't listened to it all yet...

    Twentieth century civilization is about to collapse, argues Colin Duncan, because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. The environmental historian laments the decades-long delay in grasping the urgency and magnitude of what he calls the global defrosting crisis. Duncan believes a mass collective project must arise to plan a necessary transition to a new sustainable society.

    MP3: http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20080505-Mon1200.mp3
    and
    MP3: http://www.againstthegrain.org/AtG%202008.05.05_Gl...

    http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26152
    http://www.againstthegrain.org/

    He is also the author of this paper, which I haven't yet read:

    Colin Duncan, "The Practical Equivalent of War?, or, Using Rapid Massive Climate Change to Ease the Great Transition Towards a New Sustainable Anthropocentrism" Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics
    http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/GreenGovernance/R...

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. chrisc
    Member

    It a good interview and a good paper, he is also the author of this book:

    The Centrality of Agriculture

    Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature

    Colin A.M. Duncan

    An innovative critique of modernity and industrialization.

    Bridging the gap between political economy and ecology, The Centrality of Agriculture is a critical review of the history of capitalism and socialism in relation to agriculture. Colin Duncan argues that the important role of agriculture has been overlooked during the last two centuries. It must be restored to a central place in society.

    Using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, Duncan argues that the entire project of developing the theory of political economy has been seriously sidetracked by industrialism. Using England as a case study he shows that the relationship between modernity and agriculture need not be uncomfortable and suggests ways in which the original socialist project can be rejuvenated to make it both more feasible and more attractive.

    Duncan concludes that no sustainable human future can be conceived unless and until the centrality of agriculture is properly recognized and new economic institutions are developed that will encourage people to take care of their landscapes.

    http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=240

    Posted 16 years ago #
  3. truthmod
    Administrator

    Thanks, chrisc. I always enjoy these updates from you. Sure is good to keep some perspective about what's really going on, when the insularity and dysfunctionality of the 9/11 TM seem so overwhelming.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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