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In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature’s principles. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson, a respected advocate for sustainable practices and the founder of The Land Institute, seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both.
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Published October 1st 1996 by Counterpoint (first published November 30th 1992)
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Becoming Native to This Place
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Jan 21, 2008Zoe Hallez Williams rated it did not like it
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This book is so white privileged and ignorant. Wes Jackson acts as though agricultural technique can erase the impact of centuries of Western Civilization. He poses the idea that a white farmer was treated as badly as a native person by colonialism. I wish I could reclaim the five hours of my life that I spent reading this.
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Jan 25, 2016Amy rated it really liked it · review of another edition
To a large extent, this book is a challenge to the universities to stop and think what they are doing with the young men and women they are supposed to be preparing for the future. The universities now offer only one serious major; upward mobility. Little attention is paid to educating the young to return home, or to go some other place, and dig in. There is no such thing as a "homecoming" major. [p.3]
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Oct 04, 2012Aaron rated it liked it · review of another edition
Recommends it for: geographers, ecologists
Mr. Jackson certainly makes some interesting arguments, ones with which I concur a great deal. However, the book itself is written at a high level and is, therefore, going to be unavailable to certain people. I know that sounds elitist, but a big part of the problem with environmental writing is that it's not written on a level that most people understand. And, when that happens, they're free to ignore it. We need writing that reaches the core of people.
To that end, Jackson advises us to foster community in the hopes of creating an ecological view of the world that enables us to survive our own bad choices from previous generations. He does, on occasion, make arguments that I don't necessarily buy into, but on the whole I find his premise to be a good one. Unfortunately, the educational level needed to read Jackson's book leaves it out of the grasp of many people...possibly the very people who could make his ideas reality. (less)
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Feb 21, 2009Josh rated it liked it
wait until you are ready
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May 04, 2017Jeff Jones rated it it was amazing
Slim but foundational.
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Jul 30, 2018Walt rated it really liked it
Wes Jackson here provides a set of very important questions for modern society. What happened to our connection with the land and with each other? Why do we continue to follow our current economic and political models if we know they fail to make us happy? What does it mean for a way of life to be sustainable? He does not quite arrive at an answer, but does emerge with what seems to be a way towards an answer, which is the formation of communities based on shared sense of place. Since this was written, we have not made a great deal of progress, but there is still time.(less)
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Jul 06, 2019Callie rated it liked it
A philosophical ballast for the scientific work the Land Institute conducts. Wes continuously (and rightfully) pays homage to Wendell Berry. Read him first. Or, seek out Land Institute research.
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Alternative perspective on human interaction with the earth
By Gregory J Guenther on June 19, 2000
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Very easy reading, short book.
Wes Jackson describes a growing perspective that we need to interact symbiotically with the earth rather than considering the earth a "resource" at our disposal. He mixes philosophy with actual personal experiences to further illustrate the story.
The fact that he began the Land Use Institute in Kansas and is still and active participant lends credibility to his dialog.
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Doesn't live up to the title.
By Settler on August 10, 2009
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Wes Jackson is writing with the huge disadvantage of a great title, and I have to say I value all the thought and meditation the title provokes more than the content of the book, which starts with some promise but then wanders off into the woods. He tells you early on that he's going to get lost in the woods when he says that we need to have our "evolutionary/ecological worldview inform our decisions."
Part of the problem is that the title is hopeful, but the book reads like more of a wandering lament or critique of our situation for which the author ultimately has no compelling answers.
That said, the first chapters do provide some useful information on the history of agriculture in the US and the Soviet Union. Particularly interesting is his view that the failure of Soviet agriculture (because much of it was based upon Communist ideology, including ideas about plant heredity) produced in the West the contrary view that philosophy should have no bearing whatsoever on agriculture. Jackson does want philosophy and moral reflection to influence our thinking about agriculture, but he still leaves us ungrounded in any worldview that can provide moral compulsion for care of the earth.
Skip this book in favor of any of the following:
Living at Nature's Pace, Farming and the American Dream, by Gene Logsdon
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry
The Omnivore's Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
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Good book!
By Victoria Kantargis on August 21, 2013
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it's very interesting. thought provoking...most books are but this one is really good. theres history, genetics, culture, etc. very good.
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Aug 23, 2014James rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Coronado murdered a native slave in 1542. He had led Coronado's men on a wild goose chase for gold in hopes that they would return him to his homeland.
And so there is a conflict between our greed, our trust in technology and our entering into place. This is a challenging and thought-provoking essay.
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Apr 18, 2009Lisa rated it really liked it
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There was a lot to reflect on in this book, though I think I would need to read it at least once more before seeing how all of the pieces fit together. It's difficult to see exactly what Jackson means by 'becoming native to this place' and how we are to carry it out. That's worth talking about, though.
The writing itself is at times slow-going and at times riveting.
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IAN ANGUS is a socialist educator, historian and activist based in Canada. He speaks frequently at conferences on socialist and ecological issues, and his articles have been published in journals and newspapers around the world.
His most recent book is FACING THE ANTHROPOCENE: DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND THE CRISIS OF THE EARTH SYSTEM, which noted ecosocialist Michaey Lowy describes as "an outstanding contribution, not only for understanding the nature of the Anthropocene and its deadly consequences for human life, but also for explaining its social and economic causes."
In TOO MANY PEOPLE? POPULATION, IMMIGRATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, co-written with Simon Butler, he provided .a clear, well-documented, and popularly written refutation of the idea that “overpopulation” is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions.
His book CANADIAN BOLSHEVIKS: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA, has been described by academic reviewers as "an underground classic among historians of the Canadian left" and "required reading for anyone seriously interested in the history of communism in Canada." A second edition was published in 2004.
Ian Angus is Editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative which has attracted writers and readers from every continent. http://.climateandcapitalism.com
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5.0 out of 5 starsCrucially important book on climate change and the ecological crisisJanuary 3, 2017
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This short (232-page), accessible book makes a unique contribution among all the books now written on climate change and the ecological crisis. Ian Angus summarizes for a popular audience the developments leading to the designation of our time by leading earth scientists as the "Anthropocene," a new geological epoch shaped by the destructive actions of human society.
Paul Crutzen, the atmospheric chemist who won a Nobel Prize for his work identifying the hole in the ozone layer and its cause, coined the term "Anthropocene" in 2000, and it rapidly spread. It has now been recommended to the International Geological Congress and is pending official adoption.
The work leading to this new scientific periodization was carried out by earth scientists in the IGBP (the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program), formed in 1986 by the International Council of Scientific Unions, and published in 2004 as Global Change and the Earth System, edited by Steffen et al, published by Springer.
The first section of the book, "A No-Analog State," summarizes the earth science in a concise and gripping fashion, making clear that the placid, stable period of the Holocene, which made the growth of the human population and the rise of human "civilization" possible, has now come to an end. There will be no new Ice Age -- the massive CO2 emissions since WWII make that impossible. There will be only global warming and potentially catastrophic climate change unless we reverse course.
The final piece of the analysis of the "Anthropocene" is to date its beginning. Some have argued for an early date corresponding to the start of capitalism, but Angus conveys the earth scientists' conclusion that it was in fact the "Great Acceleration" after World War Two that clearly marks the beginning of the Anthropocene.
The second section of the book, "Fossil Capitalism," documents the Great Acceleration in the U.S. and then elsewhere, the development of an automobile-centered, fossil fuel-driven capitalist society, and a massive, oil-driven military used to assert control of the globe.
The last section of the book, "The Alternative," is inevitably the weakest. Angus argues for ecosocialism, but of course no one knows exactly what that is or how to create it starting from our current doomed society. Angus, along with John Bellamy Foster of Monthly Review Press, advocates a Marxism with an ecological component that was overlooked by most Marxists until recently and that would avoid the ecological disaster of the Soviet Union.
Clearly, based on the alarming conclusions of earth science, radical change is urgently required, and we need to act against the Fossil Fuel Industry and "fossil capitalism" while we debate the contours of the new ecological society!
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One of the most significant strengths of this book is the way in which it brings together an enormous diversity of insights into a comprehensive synthesis of the Anthropocene. The analysis traverses not only the basic science of climate change and other planetary boundaries such as ocean acidification, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity decline, but links this fundamentally to the history of ‘fossil capitalism’ and the complex political economy which enabled the Great Acceleration of post-Second World War economic growth. There is much to learn in reading this book! Essential reading for all those concerned about the climate crisis and what we need to do to limit catastrophe. (You can read my full review of this book here: [...])
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Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Ian Angus
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment.
Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge. Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis.
Cogent and compellingly written, Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural and social science that illustrates how capitalism's inexorable drive for growth, powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form, has driven our world to the brink of disaster. Survival in the Anthropocene, Angus argues, requires radical social change, replacing fossil capitalism with a new, ecosocialist civilization.
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