Just realized that I can re-seal snack bags with my craft heat sealer. #ThisChangesEverything

_#EnoughIsEnough_ by #RobDietz and #DanONeill with a Foreword by #HermanDaly. These are names I've been seeing in #NaomiKlein's #ThisChangesEverything and #KoheiSaito's book on the #Anthropocene. It feels like Fate to stumble on a whole book about #Enoughness just when it's been preoccupying me more than usual since last night...
#知足 #足るを知る #老子46 #LaoTzu46 https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf

Only 53 pages into #KoheiSaito's 364-page #Japanese book on the #Anthropocene and #Capitalism or whatever today's #GlobalEconomy now has in common with the economy #KarlMarx wrote about. The book mentions #Wallerstein, #ImmanuelWallerstein too. As with #NaomiKlein's #ThisChangesEverything #SaitoKohei's book is putting new articles into context. The rich countries can't #externalize #外部化 as much of the #risk and #cost anymore.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/02/rising-costs-threaten-global-unrest-say-risk-analysts

#斎藤幸平 の本、 #人新世と資本論 はいいな。 #ガレアノ さんの #収奪された大地ラテンアメリカ500年 (1973年出版!) を読んでから気になっていたペルー(ボリビア、チリなど)の #グアノ 貿易までとらげている。 #ナオミクライン さん の #これが全てを変える （#ThisChangesEverything)で #ナウル (#Nauru)の肥料貿易と #資源の呪い を見てから 改めてガレアノさんの グアノ扱いを読んいた。 斎藤さんまた、 きれいに纏めて勉強になる。 前から英語の #Externality をどう日本語で表現するか気になっていた。 斎藤さんの本を読むと自然と #外部化 の表現を身につく。 #チョムスキー と #クライン (#NaomiKlein) を読むと #Extractivism も気になるけど、 人新世と資本論 を読んだら #採集主義 で通じるだろうと思った... 48ページしか読んでいないけど、 最後まで読まなくちゃ!!

> In a 2007 cable.. made public by #WikiLeaks, an unnamed U.S. official summed up his government’s analysis of what went wrong on the island: “Nauru simply spent extravagantly, never worrying about tomorrow.” .. that diagnosis is.. [not] unique to Nauru; our entire culture is extravagantly drawing down finite resources, never worrying about tomorrow.
#ThisChangesEverything
Learning from #Toroku I bet there was resistance in #Nauru too, but the #SacrificeZone attitude overwhelms locals.

Galeano talks about #AndreGunderFrank analyzing "#MetropolisSatellite" relations. For Toroku Kazuyuki Kawahara (and for Minamata, Michiko Ishimure) talks about #CenterPeriphery relations: how the urban centers profit at the expense of the rural peripheries. The history of #Bolivia's #Potosi features mercury poisoning too with the nearby #Huancavelica mines. Galeano's book has me thinking of #NaomiKlein on #Nauru in #ThisChangesEverything, #Peru's economy relied on centuries of #BirdPoop too.

> .. denigration of collective action and veneration of the profit motive.. [in] virtually every government.. major media organization.. university, our very souls.. we are nothing but selfish, greedy, self-gratification machines.. #neoliberalism’s.. damaging legacy.. its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that it became possible to convince us that we are not just incapable of self-preservation but fundamentally #NotWorthSaving.
--- #NaomiKlein in #ThisChangesEverything

21% into #NaomiKlein #ThisChangesEverything: everything on #Climate, #Economics is like something in her book.
> “The #ClimateJustice fight here in the U.S. and around the world is not just a fight against the [biggest] ecological crisis of all time,It is the fight for a new economy, a new energy system, a new democracy, a new relationship to the planet and to each other, for land, water, and food sovereignty, for #IndigenousRights, for #HumanRights and #dignity for all people.
#MiyaYoshitani

> Recognizing the threat posed by this empathy-exterminating #mind-set—which the cultural theorists describe as “hierarchical” and “individualistic”—is a matter of great urgency because climate change will test our moral character like little before. The #USChamberOfCommerce.. argued in a petition that in the event of #GlobalWarming, “populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological, and technological adaptations.”
#NaomiKlein #ThisChangesEverything

> 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.

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.