Author: Richard M. Mosey File Type: pdf The American middle class is disappearing, and our obtuse emphasis on growth rather than stability ensures this. Economic collapse is only accelerating the privatization of essential resources like water. Economic globalization will exacerbate planetary decline and create poverty for at least 80 percent of Americans (and those in developing countries).Environmentalist and writer Richard Mosey shows why scientists are woefully incapable of competing with corporations in a public relations and legislative war. He explores the role of corporations in creating a debate where no debate exists, and he exposes the professional and academic global warming deniers and the funding sources that inspire their research.The book also explores how globalization will accelerate regional and international conflict through competition for essential resources and the unprecedented migration that occurs when water and other needs run out. American consumption patterns outstrip the rest of the worlds but even with the economic crash there is no significant slowdown in sight. The author looks at why our indebted society will keep spending money it doesnt have, and ponders the human compulsions driving this behavior.Neither the Democrats nor Republicans in Washington can survive without large amounts of corporate largesse because of the staggering amount of funding involved in running for and remaining in office.Windows of opportunity are closing rapidly and, unfortunately, are likely to slam shut before we muster the necessary national or global political will to take serious measures to address the unfolding crises. The recent American and global economic meltdown, while serious, pales in comparison to the catastrophic dangers if climate change is allowed to spin out of control. The increasingly desperate scientific reports will almost certainly be ignored or played down scientists are woefully outgunned in the battle for media coverage.The book begins with views of respected scientists discussing their fields of expertise, looks at demographic trends in the developed and the emerging economies, and lays out the implications for our future, the massive expenditures and unimaginable sacrifices that will be required when the truth of the situation becomes clear.ReviewFocusing mostly on water, Ohio-based freelance journalist Mosey describes the current climate change crisis, how it came about, and why he expects little or no action to be taken about it. He discusses oceans climate change population, business as usual deniers and climate change, American history, and the economic meltdown. In a second volume, he will explore the influence of monotheistic religions, culture, and civilization on the climate debate and the secular religion of growth and its influence on how people approach living on a finite planet. He includes a slender bibliography, but no index. --SciTech News Dec 2009 About the AuthorRichard Mosey, a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, is a freelance journalist, newspaper reporter and editor based in Toledo, Ohio. He says, I became interested in writing this particular book because of my experience with public policy and the environment through my work as a journalist and through my life-long interest in wilderness hiking. I could see that pristine areas had become less pristine and water sources had become less reliable even during the course of my lifetime. I found that any environmental action, even the most benign, met stiff resistance during the political process because of business interests. With a problem as all-encompassing as climate change, I doubt that our collective political will, or power, is strong enough to meet the challenge.

Author: Victoria Horne File Type: pdf Four decades of feminist art history have prompted a radical rethinking of the discipline. This volume asks how feminisms interventions and propositions are relevant to contemporary scholarship today. To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant new research gathered here engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles.**About the Author Victoria Horne is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and teaches courses on contemporary art at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012, she established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative.Lara Perry is the Academic Programme Leader for History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is the author of Historys Beauties Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006) and co-editor of Politics in a Glass Case Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013)

Author: Roberto Esposito File Type: epub The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world issues and problems. The approach he takes, in line with the keen historical consciousness of Italian thinkers themselves, is a historical one. He offers insights into the great unphilosophical philosophers of lifepoets, painters, politicians and revolutionaries, film-makers and literary criticswho have made Italian thought, from its beginnings, an impure thought. People like Machiavelli, Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci were all compelled to fulfill important political roles in the societies of their times. No wonder they felt that the abstract vocabulary and concepts of pure philosophy were inadequate to express themselves. Similarly, artists such as Dante, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leopardi, or Pasolini all had to turn to other disciplines outside philosophy in order to discuss and grapple with the messy, constantly changing realities of their lives. For this very reason, says Esposito, because Italian thinkers have always been deeply engaged with the concrete reality of life (rather than closed up in the introspective pursuits of traditional continental philosophy) and because they have looked for the answers of today in the origins of their own historical roots, Italian theory is a living thought. Hence the relevance or actuality that it holds for us today. Continuing in this tradition, the work of Roberto Esposito is distinguished by its interdisciplinary breadth. In this book, he passes effortlessly from literary criticism to art history, through political history and philosophy, in an expository style that welcomes non-philosophers to engage in the most pressing problems of our times. As in all his works, Esposito is inclusive rather than exclusive in being so, he celebrates the affirmative potency of life.**

Author: James Henry Breasted File Type: pdf