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#AmitavGhosh: Es «demencial» que el mundo avance en dirección opuesta en materia climática. – Capitán Swing
https://capitanswing.com/prensa/amitav-ghosh-es-demencial-que-el-mundo-avance-en-direccion-opuesta-en-materia-climatica/ -
@capitanswing.bsky.social Sí, la crisis de imaginación es tan grande que ni siquiera imaginamos que el CAOS climático no sea una "crisis" y seguimos hablando (algunos, como estos de Caixa Forum) de "crisis climática". No, no es una crisis, que por definición es algo resoluble, temporal, que permite la vuelta al estado anterior. Es CAOS y no volveremos al clima estable del Holoceno al menos durante siglos o milenios.
#CaosClimatico #CambioClimatico #CrisisClimatica #AmitavGhosh
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"La grande cecità" di Amitav Ghosh, 284 pagine, Neri Pozza, edizione 2017.Gli effetti del #cambiamentoClimatico sono sotto gli occhi di tutti.
Perchè allora il mondo della cultura fa così poco per sensibilizzare il mondo?
Da questa domanda si dipana la brillante analisi di #AmitavGhosh.#libri #leggere #cosaLeggoNelWeekend #22marzo #LaGrandeCecità
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This autumn, I returned to Amitav Ghosh’s work for the first time in around 20 years by reading the Ibis trilogy. And, wow, was it worth the wait. He spent a decade researching and writing this epic story of lives entwined by the poisoned veins of empire in the years leading up to the First Opium War. It's a stunning achievement. #reading #books #AmitavGhosh
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I've finished reading Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
My wife is a fan of his books, we both previously read The Calcutta Chromosome (our favorite), The Glass Palace and In an Antique Land. Now I've gotten to Sea of Poppies which she has already read.Spoilers ahead.
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Amitav Ghosh writes for the 22nd century. His secret manuscript will remain unread until 2114, joining the Future Library’s visionary archive in Oslo—a collaboration of trees, trust, and time.
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A biting commentary on the global #ecological and #social collapse underway by #AmitavGhosh and his sharp critique of #colonialism even as he receives an award... somewhat oddly I felt "...in the Royal Palace in #Amsterdam... from his Majesty, King Willem-Alexander in the presence of the Royal Family of the #Netherlands."
#ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #sentience #immigration #fascism #war
https://scroll.in/article/1076239/amitav-ghosh-in-this-time-of-monstrous-anomalies-we-must-recognise-that-the-earth-is-judging-us -
2/2 ... Ter meerdere eer en glorie van zichzelf. En later ter meerdere eer en glorie van de verheffing van de mensen die in het mondiale zuiden leefden; “development” zijn we dat na de Tweede Wereldoorlog gaan noemen."
Nee hoor, we spreken dat woord niet uit, we handelen er alleen maar naar.
#DeVier #Politiek #PVV #Schoof @groenlinkspvda #economie #kapitalisme #AmitavGhosh
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1/2 Lees De vloek van de nootmuskaat van Amitav Ghosh ( https://www.atlascontact.nl/2024/03/07/erasmusprijs-2024-toegekend-aan-amitav-ghosh/ ) en je begrijpt deze uitspraak van de schrijver.
"Het kapitalisme is niet een op zichzelf staand economisch systeem, maar geworteld in een wereldbeeld waarin de witte westerse man zichzelf als heer en meester beschouwde waaraan de rest van de wereld onderworpen diende te worden. ....
#DeVier #Politiek #PVV #Schoof #groenlinkspvda #economie #kapitalisme #AmitavGhosh
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> .. the movement became synonymous with a place— Standing Rock— it could be said that its political energy was generated in large part by the landscape itself. In the words of a group of activists, “Standing Rock emerged as a ‘prayer camp’ because the grounds in question are sacred, a site of ceremony and ancestral knowledge.”
#AmitavGhosh #NutmegsCurse
#StandingRock #OccupyMovement #OccupyPlaces
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La noix de muscade comme métaphore de l’impensé colonial
Avec «La Malédiction de la muscade», le romancier d’origine indienne #AmitavGhosh, engagé dans la lutte contre les dérèglements climatiques, propose un récit-essai original. Ethnologue de formation, il combine rigueur scientifique et talent de conteur.
Un article de Claude Grimal (En attendant Nadeau)
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Les colons européens, ces assassins
Que pèsent les #NoixDeMuscade dans l’histoire politique du monde? Ces grosses billes du muscadier ont eu l’effet d’un explosif utilisé par les colons néerlandais dans l’#ArchipelDesBanda au 17e siècle. #AmitavGhosh met en regard cette histoire avec l’accaparement des ressources actuelles. (Gilles Fumey)
✒️ Par Géographies en mouvement | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/geographies-en-mouvement/blog/220424/les-colons-europeens-ces-assassins
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"Eminent writer #AmitavGhosh has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024.
"He wields his pen to show the #climate crisis is a cultural crisis that results from a dearth of the imagination," it said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/108311854.cms
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Reading #AndreasMalm's _ #FossilCapital _ convinces me again that #ProgressIsALie. An article by #BrianTokar sent me to Malm's books and they seem very helpful so far. They complement #AmitavGhosh's doubts about the "#Anthropocene" term:
> .. if some humans introduced steam power against the explicit resistance of other humans, then it would be hard to maintain a notion of it as the expression of a species-wide project... steam arose as a form of power exercised by some people against others.. -
The idea of a mystical aim for soldiering, and battle as a psychoactive (like LSD?) got me thinking of Bertrand Russel on Boredom.
> Wars, pogroms, and persecutions have all been part of the flight from boredom; even quarrels with neighbours have been found better than nothing. Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
#BoredomSoldiers #SoldieringBoredom
In #FloodOfFire #AmitavGhosh imagines a sepoy's regrets.. -
> A number of historical studies have shown that for Indians, Hindus and Muslims alike, soldiering was not just a profession but also a spiritual calling, tied to mystical experiences. Indeed, some of the fiercest warriors in India were Sufis and sadhus of various different orders. The British recognized this and always assigned a faqir or a sadhu to each battalion, along with run-of-the-mill clerics like pundits and moulvis.
#AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #MysticSoldiers #SoldierMysticism -
> .. the movement’s insistence on the particularity of a specific landscape did not, in any way, limit its appeal; to the contrary, #StandingRock became a magnet for people from many countries and faith traditions. “There were Iraqi people there; there were Egyptian people there,” says an activist. “You had many people from different European countries that came to Standing Rock. Different walks of life. Filipinos. You have every walk of life there.”
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> .. as an officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Orwell probably smoked opium himself. ‘What are the pleasures of opium?’ he once wrote. ‘Like other pleasures, they are, unfortunately, indescribable.’
#Orwell #GeorgeOrwell #OrwellOnOpium in #SmokeAndAshes by #AmitavGhosh
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This empire may be under American control today, but it is the product of centuries of combined Western effort, going back to the 1500s. What would happen to this vast strategic structure if there were to be a quick, worldwide transition to forms of energy that do not need to be transported across oceans? The answer is obvious: its value would be hugely diminished. China, India, Japan, and other large Asian economies would not need to worry about the Strait of Hormuz or Malacca— they would generate their power on their own soil.
#AmitavGhosh in #NutmegsCurse... imagine if China were able to completely reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and switch to renewable energies. It would completely overturn the geopolitical order of the world today, because the geopolitics of the world really depends on the shipping of fossil fuels, you know, through these particular chokepoints. Two of the most important chokepoints are the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca. And, you know, something like 40% of the world’s oil ship through these chokepoints every day. So, on controlling these chokepoints depends, actually, Western geopolitical dominance. And if fossil fuels were to be completely substituted at scale, what you would have is a complete inversion of the world’s geopolitical order.
- https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
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> By the end of the 19th century, at least 3 to 10 percent of the Chinese population, and possibly as much as 30 or 40 percent, were regular users. Western traders justified their behavior by appealing to the newly popular ideology of the free market. Supply, they insisted, always chased demand.. Ghosh.. argues, “Where plentiful supplies of opioids exist, they will create their own demand,”..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/02/08/amitav-ghosh-smoke-ashes-opium-history-review/
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> ".. if gain-seeking desires had not cauterised their souls" Governer of Canton Lin Zexu
> ".. we should thus certainly put a value on riches and slight men's lives" Chinese Commissioner Keying
https://archive.org/details/indochineseopium00hillrich
#JSpencerHill in #IndoChineseOpiumTrade
/HT #AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #OpiumTrade #DrugWar #OpiumWars #DrugWars #LinZexu -
No, the Shift to Renewables Will Not Be the End of Toil
Energy derived from sources like the sun, air, and water, on the other hand, is imbued with immense liberatory potential. In principle every house, farm, and factory could free itself from the grid by generating its own power. No longer would power lines and gigantic, leak prone tankers be needed for the transportation of energy; no longer would workers have to toil in underground mines or remote deserts or rough seas; there would be no need for the long supply chains required by fossil fuels. (Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse, p. 102, emphasis mine)
Context makes it clear Ghosh is thinking of coal mining, oil fields, and offshore platforms when he dreams of a world where workers no longer toil. But in his reverie, Ghosh neglects an important and undeniable feature of renewable energy: it is mining intensive.
The IEA sees demand for critical minerals surging from 2020-2050 even as the demand for and value of coal drops. In green growth scenarios, workers will likely have to keep toiling in mines as they now do in Chile’s Atacama desert, the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, or the copper and nickel mines of South Asia, South America, or Siberia. The list of potential sacrifice zones will grow and could someday extend from American public lands to offshore oil platforms converted to deep-sea mining.
This observation is not an argument against the transition from fossil fuels. It’s just to say that right now there are no signs the shift to renewables will undo the resource curse. Extraction for global markets continues to exact a local toll: serious human rights violations, unremediated (or irremediable) environmental destruction, conflicts over water (which Ghosh himself mentions briefly in a list of “conflicts that global warming will create or exacerbate,” p. 127), and social division. And for the foreseeable future, mineral supply chains will be nearly as long as those required by fossil fuels, strung across the globe and fraught with geopolitical tension.
A decisive shift from fossil fuels could see the end of the petro-dollar and the toppling of “global hierarchies of power,” as Ghosh imagines: “The liberatory potential of renewable energy has a very important international dimension as well: if adopted at scale it could transform, indeed revolutionize, the current global order” (p. 103). It could also precipitate another set of crises – environmental, humanitarian, and military — and it’s worth considering that eventuality.
Postscript, 20 January 2022: For more on the geopolitical risks of the energy transition, see Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval The New Geopolitics of Energy,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2022.
#AmitavGhosh #greenGrowth #humanRights #renewables #supplyChains #TheNutmegSCurse