some problematic assumptions re. food production and the future. Ample
studies show small plotholder farms to be significantly more productive
per acre than large industrial farms (cf Amartya Sen and many following
him) with a vastly lower ecological footprint. All this aside from large
scale industrial farming's invisible externalities and dependence on
capital subsidies (eg CAP).
Also check the food production stats in the large Soviet collectivised
farms; without the private allotment holdings the social order would
have collapsed. All this points to a very different social model vis a
vis "Folk Politics".
One advantage with industrial food production is the capacity to
mobilise production fast eg Samir Amin's studies on post war China's
food output but it's exceptional and has its costs. China is already
working to redress the balance in particular in demographic terms
Don't know how to interpret Srnicek Williams' Invent the Future, it's
very bound by the institutional and demographic context in which it was
produced. In what it leaves out, it's not too difficult to see
connotations of increasing monoculture and totalitarianism for such a
future; hopefully "Folk Politics" may yet be there to save us (again).
Siraj
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:31:11 +0200
From: Florian Cramer<flrnc...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: <nettime> Live Your Models
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> More importantly, Rifkin's strategic aim in calling for an investment
wave centered on solar power, micro-manufacturing and smart grids is to
undo the hegemony of the giant corporations, particularly the oil
companies which are directly responsible for climate change and which
also constitute the civilian component of military imperialism.?
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