Judy Zingher > Recent Status Updates

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Wonderful tongue-in-cheek style. Interesting premise, especially now, 60 years later. Quotable, in light of current events, on the isolation of lemurs and that fauna on Madagascar: "Here obsolete species could thrive like obsolete industries behind a tariff wall." Huh.

McLuhan / Fiore in 1967 consistently use the words man / men where we would use person / people, and environment for what we think of as the conventions of the times. "Environment" then did not mean what is means today. Quote for today: "We approach the new with the psychological conditioning and sensory responses to the old." That's what we are doing against the current political situation is a good example.

Returning at page 64. Very slow going, but worth it.

Very important book for American audiences. (My Swiss farmer cousin has been intoning this for decades - no news to him!)

Read it. Informative, revealing and jauntily written.

Excellent. The Hebrew is challenging (for me) but worth learning about the Jewish community in Iraq, its history and complexity, and fate. It was hard in Israel, too. I am particularly infuriated by the stupidity of draining the Huleh. They complain of no water, but dried the large pool, calling it as a fetid diseased swamp, ignoring Abu Kabi's rice idea. He wanted the right thing for the wrong reasons.

I can't find a hard copy - all I could find is the 9 CD audio, which is boringly read by Stephen McLaughlin. I listened to the first CD, but it was not fun. For technical reasons, I'm bagging it.

In her introduction alone, Heather McGhee sharpens the focus on the picture of our society that we all know, sort of, and suddenly, I understand why the illogical unaccountable things happen every day. I've just started the book and already I'm riveted.

I'm about halfway, and nourished by each page. I've had to return the book to the library - it's on hold for others who wisely want to read it. Robin Wall Kimmerer lives in this real 21st century US, but she navigates it in the beautiful world of wisdom and fairness and reciprocity, from a people who live that way, but are not and have not been treated that way. To be continued.

Delightfully written, knowledgeable and comprehensive, yet recalling Clair Patterson (a man) and his tenacious battle against leaded gas, bless him, fighting the API, fossil fuel and lead industries, which had the ear of government, universities and the NIH. We don't therefore know of Patterson, but he was a hero, I think, on the level of Rachel Carson.

Arendt's style is very dense, with long sentences whose subject often is not at the beginning. But by Part II, Imperialism, my head is exploding! P. 137: "Foreign investments, capital export which had started as an emergency measure, became a permanent feature of all economic systems as soon as it was protected by export of power..." Oh. There's much more.

Arendt's style is very dense, with long sentences whose subject often is not at the beginning. But by Part II, Imperialism, my head is exploding! P. 137: "Foreign investments, capital export which had started as an emergency measure, became a permanent feature of all economic systems as soon as it was protected by export of power..." Oh.

I have to wait till I can get it back from the library. It is appropriately highly in demand.

Devastating. Mind filling. Familiar facts, frighteningly close time-lines on reality overtaking us all. Read it.

Explains how current situation was framed.

Explains how current situation was framed.

Explains how current situation was framed.

Quite a story.

Excellent. Pulls lots of ideas together.

Very technical, scientific; engagingly written.

p.133: So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months. Most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would crash to extinction about the same time. Next would go the bulk of the flowering plants and with them the physical structure of most forests ...

Very technical, scientific; engagingly written.

p.133: So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months. Most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would crash to extinction about the same time. Next would go the bulk of the flowering plants and with them the physical structure of most forests ...

Very technical, scientific; engagingly written.

p.133: So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months. Most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would crash to extinction about the same time. Next would go the bulk of the flowering plants and with them the physical structure of most forests ...

Very technical, scientific; engagingly written.

p.133: So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months. Most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would crash to extinction about the same time. Next would go the bulk of the flowering plants and with them the physical structure of most forests ...

Very technical, scientific; engagingly written.

Explains how current situation was framed.