> ... how to course-correct our civilization, so that the rise of capitalism as a global economic system based on exploitation and extraction would not corral our species into its own misery and threaten the survival of all species on an irreplaceable planet that is a miracle and not a resource.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/11/the-wonderful-century-alfred-russel-wallace/
#AlfredRusselWallace #EvolutionGuy #CivilizationCourseCorrection
#CourseCorrectCivilization
#IndustrialCivilization
#MariaPopova
/HT @mariapopova

> Emotional stress.. implicated in disorders of the blood vessels and the heart.
"Physicians have long felt that the rapid pace of modern civilization might somehow be contributing to the development of heart disease," notes a report by the National Heart Institute...

https://libcom.org/article/our-synthetic-environment-murray-bookchin
#MurrayBookchin on #stress #EmotionalStress and #IndustrialCivilization in #OurSyntheticEnvironment with
the #NationalHeartInstitute

> We concluded, as some writers in Germany and Czechoslovakia have also concluded, that the important fact of the present time is not the struggle between #capitalism and #socialism but the struggle between industrial civilization and #humanity...This view was reinforced.. by the extreme similarity between the #Bolshevik #commissary and the #American #TrustMagnate [#Capitalist]...

#BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel in _Prospects For #IndustrialCivilization in 1924

https://archive.org/details/prospectsofindus0000bert_l3l6

It's hard not to keep thinking about his book, _The Prospects of Industrial Civilization_ by #BertrandRussel and #DoraRussel. What they call "trivial pursuits and passivity" #LewisMumford called "semi-mental distraction"... and they are writing 50 or 60 years before proprietary SNSs, unless we can see commercial mainstream media as some sort of centralized SNS...

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=The+Prospects+of+Industrial+Civilization&open=0&res=25&view=simple&phrase=1&column=title

#Oligarchy #Dictatorship #IndustrialCivilization

> 水俣病が新発生/カニ食べた少年，魔の禁漁区は獲り放題/なお続発の恐れ https://minamata195651.jp/pdf/news/news_1956kara1960.pdf

Like Piya in #AmitavGhosh's #TheHungryTIde, I wish I knew more about #crabs.. Maybe they have a high tolerance, or affinity, for #OrganicMercury and other heavy metals, pollutants in general? While all other cathes were going down, #crab catches went up one year during a tough time in #Minamata. #水俣 #水俣病 #チッソ #チッソ病 #ザコポレーション #水銀 #mercury #MethylMercury #TheCorporation #IndustrialCivilization #Omnicide

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