lucas’s Reviews > How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature > Status Update

david harvey was mentioned, which reminded me of the academic arguments between harvey (marxist geographer) and simon springer (anarchist geographer), which then made me decide it was time to reread springer's hit paper 'fuck neoliberalism'. which has perhaps the greatest cover any academic piece has ever seen. might make the most of my final month of uoy library access to download some of his other papers

a lot of these essays/articles are reminding me of how prevalent the 'why should we bother' argument + climate apathy have become. and a goodreads update isnt enough to explain why we must keep fighting for the planet, even when climate change is occurring and will continue, and even when we've lost so much. glad people like mobiot use their platforms to share hope alongside criticism of capitalist environmental harm

my brother looked at me with something akin to abject terror when he saw me underlining parts of this book, because apparently i 'dont draw in books'. surprised he reacted viscerally considering he has an english lit degree and used to teach the same subject, and we are very similar as far as reading is concerned (and everything else for that matter). sometimes authors simply say compelling things that need noting

now i want to read some more simon springer. and reread the dispossessed. because there are a lot of shared ideologies between george monbiot's writing and the anarchist geography paradigm (though i do not know how monbiot describes himself politically), and that is pretty much my own political alignment. and it is just interesting to read about

been meaning to read something by monbiot for years now, and it was probably inevitable that i would end up picking up the essay collection subtitled 'politics, equality, and nature'. you can take the man out of the human geography degree, but cannot take the human geography degree out of the man, or however the saying goes