Between the pandemic & california mega fires & american dysfunction 2020 has been Mike Davis' cassandraesque year. But every time you think he's hit Peak Bleak, turns out he's still climbing... substack.sashafrerejones.com/p/friday-decem…
thankfully mike davis was completely wrong about the uneven burden of Covid. It hit poor countries of the subcontinent & africa much less than richer europe & americas.
Terrible as covid-19 is, a reminder that it could have been deadlier. Spanish flu killed the young more than the old. 60% of global mortality, some 20 million of 1918-19's toll was in India. Industrial Agriculture & inequality as Mike Davis warns will eventually produce a monster
After WW II we created a UN peacekeeping force. But war isn't top danger of mankind anymore. Dangerous microbes emerging like sparks out of the furnace of industrial agriculture are. As Davis suggests, we need to be better prepared sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/h…
If you read bw historian Mike Davis' apocalyptic lines, policy advice for 2020s:
-Pay ppl to thin weeds, clear millions of dead trees & do prescribed burns
-Move ppl out of fire prone, sprawling zones to denser coasts
- limit human ignition
- Cut CO2 FAST rosaluxnycblog.org/california-fir…
5/ Mike davis on American politics is peerless. Ecology, Empire & Economy all held in a single unified field unlike those who plough their single furrows.
Latest on 2020 election: 'Trench Warfare' newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/a…
6/ Riot on the Hill: "a big biker gang dressed as circus performers and war-surplus barbarians ... stormed the ultimate country club, squatted on Pence’s throne, chased Senators into the sewers and, above all, shot endless selfies.” ht Mike Davis
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