The “reopening” of the world’s economies, locally and nationally, piece by piece, after the sudden and massive stoppage of the entire economic system, is raising important questions about whether the system can be put back into motion selectively and into a more viable direction than it had been moving beforehand. Some observers have suggested, optimistically, […]
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The machine has stopped: what now?
Posted in Politics, tagged Arundhati Roy, Coronavirus, crisis, crisis capitalism, Dean Baker, disaster capitalism, disaster environmentalism, disaster socialism, economics, global economy, global political change, New Republic, pandemic politics, Progressive International, rebuilding the economy, reopening the economy on May 19, 2020 | 5 Comments »
Pandemic politics: on disaster capitalism, socialism, and environmentalism
Posted in Academe, Politics, tagged climate doom, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deep Adaptation, disaster capitalism, disaster environmentalism, disaster socialism, Earth Day, Earth Day 2020, Earth Week, EarthDay+50, pandemics, Rubenstein School, shock doctrine on March 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
This was originally posted over a week ago, but then taken down by request as it was being considered for publication elsewhere (but not published there). A shorter version of it appeared yesterday at VT Digger. The school I work for, the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, recently undertook a […]
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