can't recall their names but I remember suggesting that Doug have them on the show. Maybe that is what the authors in the book are getting at?
At 06:20 PM 10/13/2012, Shane Mage wrote:
>On Oct 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>I wrote the intro to this excellent collection on the unfortunate
>>thing known as catastrophism
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>What is "catastrophism" anyway? As a catastrophist (one who thinks
>that the Earth's geological and evolutionary past and the recent
>history of the solar system and of our planet within it is marked by
>catastrophic interplanetary disturbances and contacts) I find it hard
>to understand this use of the word.
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>The blurb for this book says: "The authors argue that those who care
>about social justice and the environment should jettison doomsaying— even
>as it relates to indisputably apocalyptic climate change."
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>If "doomsaying" means proclaiming that absolutely nothing can be done
>to prevent indisputably apocalyptic climate change, one wonders why
>anyone, whether or not professing care for social justice etc., would
>even bother to say anything at all--they would rationally have no
>reason to do anything other than to devote all their energies to
>preparation for whatever afterlife they envisage. For others who
>think there still is time to limit what would otherwise be an
>indisputably apocalyptic process, why suggest that their calling
>attention to its real nature, and suggesting that the proximate
>elimination of carbon-based fuels is therefore an absolute imperative-- as
>this blurb seems to do--is "catastrophism?"
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>Shane Mage
>"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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