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The Political Ecology of a Religious “Miracle” In the wake of the great Irish famine of the 1840s, the continuing expansion of pasturage threatened the livelihoods of peasant cultivators. In the...
View ArticleA View of the National Health Service
Beyond Medicine for Profit I moved to Britain in 1980. By the time I settled into Bayswater in central London in 1983, the Thatcher government was well on its way toward dismantling much of the...
View ArticleDevelopment is a Storm Called Progress
In the late eighties, I taught human ecology at the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. Huddersfield was a dreary place, with a town center dominated by a ring-road built in the ‘50s, when...
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Mexico, the Green Revolution and the Dissent of Carl Sauer
In my book, The Malthus Factor (1998), I discussed how the Green Revolution is often misrepresented as a necessary and humane response to a Malthusian crisis believed to be widespread throughout the...
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