Miasya Bulger

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sometimes mutual aid and allyship means going away, stepping back, leaving
Solidarity Chat 9: Max Liboiron — Critical Design Lab
one of the dangers of this number, a carrying capacity number, is that it sounds like it has something to do with ecology, and with the nature of humans, and their environment. And, you know, as you say, it doesn’t. It’s also a question of, you know, global capitalism. It’s not a human science number. But it will be used that way. And so, it makes me nervous to have numbers like that floating around, because I think that there is a real profound danger in them being used for profound harm
One Child To Rule Them All | Flash Forward
When colonial authorities first arrived in Guinea in the late eighteen hundreds, they noticed that there were these little islands of forests that were surrounded by dry savanna. And they immediately assumed that these forest islands were the result of environmental degradation. Rose: In reality, what had happened was the opposite. Guinea was never heavily forested, and the pockets of forests that existed were the direct result of people planting trees and creating these forests. Jade: The scientists that were looking at the landscape were actively misreading what they saw because of their fir…
One Child To Rule Them All | Flash Forward
his argument was that human growth rates would naturally outpace growth rates of food, and that the result would be poverty and famine, naturally. He argued that this was a natural, scientific, law. He also argued that this was the law of nature as ordained by God. Rose: And his ideas took off. Jade: After Malthus, you know, widely circulated these ideas, they were taken up by people, various kinds of environmentalists
One Child To Rule Them All | Flash Forward