bs2#AmitavGhosh starts _The #NutmegsCurse here among #Indonesia's #BandaIslands. It's great book: several of #Ponsonby and #AnneMorelli's Principles of #WarPropaganda start here in #Ambon, or #Amboyna later. The #Dutch traded #Manhattan for the little island #Run. It's so small you need to focus-in on a focus-in of a part of a map covering from India to New Guinea. the map is from p12 of #AlisonGames _Inventing the #English #Massacre, Amboyna.. (Previous posts mistakenly tagged #AmitovGhosh)
In his #DemocracyNow interview #AmitovGhosh mentioned the interdependence of #USA #military and #oil #fossilfuels , the importance of the #StraitOfHormuz and #StraitOfMalacca came up. #Malacca provide a #DesignPrinciple to the #ShippingIndustry 'The maximum size of a vessel that can pass through the Strait is referred to as the #Malaccamax .' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca#Economic_importance
#AmitovGhosh suggests 'that politics.. like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of #collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual #moral adventure comes at a great cost. The #ClimateCrisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task.. which #fiction.. is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book..[is] a #GreatWriter 's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time. ' #Ghosh
https://www.powells.com/book/great-derangement-climate-change-the-unthinkable-9780226526812
https://www.powells.com/book/great-derangement-climate-change-the-unthinkable-9780226526812
'Even if we were able.. to shift from #FossilFuels to #RenewableEnergy, wouldn’t there still be the problem of this, the #OverProduction of capitalism.. the problem.. of having to deal with the e-waste, of.. the batteries for the electric cars.. changing of our batteries every year because the companies have to keep producing new models and keep the #consumption flow going? '
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#JuanGonzalez #AmitovGhosh on the need for #DeGrowth ?
Thanks to @cocoron for a good link.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#JuanGonzalez #AmitovGhosh on the need for #DeGrowth ?
Thanks to @cocoron for a good link.
“A Process of Violence”: Indian Author Amitav Ghosh on How Colonialism Fueled the Climate Crisis
As talks at the Glasgow U.N. climate summit accelerate, we look at how the roots of the climate crisis date back to Western colonialism with award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, who examines the violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment in his new book, “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.” Ghosh speaks about the political significance of fossil fuels in global politics, saying that “if fossil fuels were to be completely substituted at scale, what you would have is the complete inversion of the world’s geopolitical order.” Ghosh’s previous books include “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” and the novel “Gun Island.”
"..going back to the #Enlightenment, the 17th century .. we get this #mechanistic vision of the Earth as something that’s dead, as something that really exists only to provide people, you know, powerful human beings, with resources. And I think, at bottom, we just have to move away from that, move away completely to a different way of envisioning the #earth "
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#AmitovGhosh #writer not #mechanist #NutmegsCurse reminds me of #Galeano #stories #killed by #resourcecurse
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#AmitovGhosh #writer not #mechanist #NutmegsCurse reminds me of #Galeano #stories #killed by #resourcecurse
“A Process of Violence”: Indian Author Amitav Ghosh on How Colonialism Fueled the Climate Crisis
As talks at the Glasgow U.N. climate summit accelerate, we look at how the roots of the climate crisis date back to Western colonialism with award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, who examines the violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment in his new book, “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.” Ghosh speaks about the political significance of fossil fuels in global politics, saying that “if fossil fuels were to be completely substituted at scale, what you would have is the complete inversion of the world’s geopolitical order.” Ghosh’s previous books include “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” and the novel “Gun Island.”