Wojtek
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course nobody knows for sure how this will play out, but if Jared
>> Diamond (_Collapse_) is right, such changes are very difficult to
>> implement even in societies facing extinction. But in any case, I
>> think that main obstacle is not technological or even economic, but
>> behavioral/political.
>>
>> Wojtek
>
>
> Now you're uncritically endorsing Jared Diamond? Hyper-modernist, largely
> apolitical neo-Malthusian "extinction" based on what "societies" "choose" to
> do? I thought you were opposed to strong structuralist analyses...
>
> Somehow, even this desperately-trying-to-be-fair review of recent debate on
> Diamond's arguments ( http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/ggs )
> misses the myriad number of critiques like this one of Collapse (
> http://open.salon.com/blog/timotuck/2010/03/08/an_open_critique_of_jared_diamonds_collapse_haiti_and_dr)
> that came out when Germs, Guns and Steel was first published.
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