@babelcarp Important article! But I felt frustrated not to read of broader views, policies, and models to avoid feeling futile and hopeless. I was enticed by mentions of #RebeccaSolnit and #AmitavGhosh but then left hanging without hints that we can build a #ParadiseInHell and avoid the #GreatDerangement with a decent conception of the #GoodLife that Ghosh says is "mimetic." I guess NYT is limiting, hopefully he'll fill out the promising parts as a book, #RobDietz's #EnoughIsEnough would help!

#AmitavGhosh made me senstive how #DavidBahr talks of the #GreenlandIceSheet as a living thing, trying to recover and regulate itself. In #GreatDerangement and #NutmegsCurse Ghosh gets us to see the landscape, mountains, forests.. as makers of meaning,: participants in stories. There are a lot of little mountain shrines in Japan, and sacred little spots by the seas. Maybe we all need a place we choose as a center, and refuse to let it be sold or damaged. Gotta read #BecomingNativeToThisPlace.

> There’s often thought to be a negative relationship between oil and democracy. If you have a lot of oil, if you’re a state that produces a lot of oil, you seem to be undemocratic. What I try to show in the book is there’s a much longer and more interesting history of this relationship between oil and democracy, and that it involves us as much as the countries that depend on the production of oil.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/8/from_caspian_sea_to_arctic_to
#CarbonDemocracy by #TimothyMitchell is quoted in #GreatDerangement

> The U.S. military is by some accounts the largest single consumer of petroleum in the world. In 2011, the Department of Defense released, at minimum, 56.6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere, more than the U.S.-based operations of ExxonMobil and Shell combined.
#NaomiKlein #ThisChangesEverything is great to read along with #AmitavGhosh. She has me, after #GreatDerangement, re-reading pages of #NutmegsCurse . I ended up reading the books in reverse chronological order.

> The dominant approach in.. [#ClimateEthics] is again posited on rational actors, freely pursuing their own interests. A philosopher of this tradition, in responding to the argument that the moral imperative of climate change comes from the need to save the millions of lives in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, might well quote #DavidHume: ‘’Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.’
#AmitavGosh's #GreatDerangement and #Western #YangChu

In The #GreatDerangement, #AmitavGhosh quotes U Thant. The above quote is from when I was a one-year old but I have vague memories of the name U Thant... A quick search showed me that my image of him got confused with other images of Asians, or maybe mean comic depictions or something. A quick search shows that the previous post's quote already a meme on #AZquotes, along with another by Buddhist U Thant about everyone deserving respect, like in #Catholic #LaudatoSi by #PopeFrancis: #dignity.

> In 1971.. ‘As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: “With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,” or, “They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.”’ #UThant in The #GreatDerangement

> Before the advent of the carbon-intensive economy, the populations of the ‘old world’ were not divided by vast gaps in technology. For millennia, trade connections were close enough to ensure that innovations in thought and technique were transmitted quite rapidly over long distances.

#AmitavGhosh makes me want to remember so much while reading The #GreatDerangement. Stereotypes about economic development and "modernity" make it easy to ignore or forget history.

Reading that second quote in #AmitavGhosh's The #GreatDerangement reminded me of Noam Chomsk's quote of Daniel Defoe. Both examples of #BritishIndustry relying on #Protectionism to get started are from works by #PrasannanParthasarathi. It's nice to see that the upcoming Harvard PhD dissertation, Who Was Rich and Who Was Poor in the Eighteenth Centruy, that #Chomsky quoted in 1996 became a book, _Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not, of 2011 for #AmitavGhosh to use in 2016. #Parthasarathi

I'm trying to continue a book-reading binge with #NaomiKlein's #ThisChangesEverything after #AmitavaGhosh's The #GreatDerangement. Being more influenced by Bengal and India Ghosh may have been able to avoid some of the big-lie images that get Naomi Klein's book started. She'll probably come back and sort out the #FreeMarketMyths later but a few pages in, during the discussion of the Heartland Institute's science-ish hand-waving and talking points I keep thinking of #NoamChomsky on the 80s.

> Absolute freedom is the right of the strongest to dominate.
#Camus #AlbertCamus in #TheRebel keeps coming to mind while reading The #GreatDerangement by #AmitavGhosh The last parts comparing the #ParisAgreement and #FreeTrade, #NeoLiberal bureaucracies keep driving me toward the last parts of The Rebel.

> .. #humanity has lost its way and of the #limits..[of] human agency... the most radical elements of #PopeFrancis’s critique of the era that he describes as ‘a period of irrational confidence in progress and human abilities’. It is his questioning of the idea that ‘human #freedom is limitless’. ‘We have forgotten,’ goes the text, ‘that “man is not only a freedom which he creates for himself. . . . He is spirit and will, but also nature.”’
#AmitavGhosh on #LaudatoSi in The #GreatDerangement

アミタヴ・ゴシュさんのノンフィションの和訳があれば助かる： The Nutmeg's Curseもてても大事な本です。 けど、この投稿のリンクは、 #田口陽子 on The #GreatDerangement by #AmitavGosh

https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/rs/bitstream/10086/28651/1/kunitachi0001100110.pdf

speaking of #StoneTablets:
> .. around #Fukushima.. stone tablets had been placed along the shoreline in the Middle Ages to serve as #tsunami warnings; future generations were explicitly told ‘Do not build your homes below this point!’
The #Japanese are certainly no more inattentive to the words of their ancestors than any other people: yet not only did they build exactly where they had been warned not to, they actually situated a #NuclearPlant there.
#AmitavGhosh in The #GreatDerangement

> ..our gaze.. [is] turning.. the uncanny and improbable.. are beating at our doors.. have stirred a.. recognition.. awareness that humans were never alone.. always.. surrounded by beings.. who share elements of that which we had thought to be.. distinctive.. the capacities of will, thought, and consciousness.
#AmitavGhosh with The #GreatDerangement has me thinking of chickens and #Magpie's song on #LivingPlanet, #TheLandKnowsYoureThere. Great read after #HungryTide and #NutmegsCurse