Dear friends,
Those who have been following Louis' posts on ecology will be
interested in knowing that the 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference will
feature a panel on "Marxist Contributions to Ecological Theory" with
John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon
Stephen Jay
On Sat, February 21, 1998 at 21:47:46 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
The Fall 1996 Science and Society, edited by PEN-L'er David Laibman,
contains an article by Douglas Boucher called "Not With a Bang, but a
Whimper." It includes a paragraph that I find highly disturbing:
As ecosystems are
Bill Lear:
The scenario of
every last species except homo sapiens becoming extinct would indeed
be catastrophic, but I also see this as quite consistent with LL's
comment about replacing one environment we like (this one, though we
would like it better if we would stop "all the terrible things"
I have not read either the Boucher article or the
Levins and Lewontin piece in O'Connor's journal. But I
think that they are being misinterpreted and unfairly
castigated here. They are the authors of _The Dialectical
Biologist_ and are both extremely capable ecologists.
Levins is one
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
I have not read either the Boucher article or the
Levins and Lewontin piece in O'Connor's journal. But I
think that they are being misinterpreted and unfairly
castigated here. They are the authors of _The Dialectical
The focus
Louis,
My mail comes in in a funny order. I actually keep
track of SS but somehow did not bother reading the Boucher
piece in its original site. It isn't all that impressive I
must say, especially in its political analysis which is
somehwere between medieval and pathetic.
I should
The Fall 1996 Science and Society, edited by PEN-L'er David Laibman,
contains an article by Douglas Boucher called "Not With a Bang, but a
Whimper." It includes a paragraph that I find highly disturbing:
As ecosystems are transformed, species are eliminated -- but
opportunities are created for
