tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post6200250571928171616..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: When history was made and other storiesbyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-34733296170765964702011-11-22T22:32:26.751+00:002011-11-22T22:32:26.751+00:00Sean - Thanks!
Toby - According to Gittins in the...Sean - Thanks!<br /><br />Toby - According to <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/facts-count-because-whats-mined-is-yours-20111122-1nsqo.html" rel="nofollow">Gittins in the SMH today</a>, the Australian economy is 86% services.<br /><br />It's worth noting that service industries still consume physical resources, and that huge increases in efficiency mean that more physical byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-84761911580334286862011-11-22T00:09:51.825+00:002011-11-22T00:09:51.825+00:00After a little digging, it looks like roughly 70% ...After a little digging, it looks like roughly 70% of GDP is services, and this goes up as countries get richer, but I don't know how that has changed century-to-century:<br />http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?action=select_countries&theme=5&variable_ID=216<br /><br />I'm sure you're right that just plotting non-renewable resource consumption would put the 20thTobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-83812400955210420272011-11-21T19:53:06.067+00:002011-11-21T19:53:06.067+00:00Byron, just fyi, a couple of weeks ago UNSW ran a ...Byron, just fyi, a couple of weeks ago UNSW ran a conference on climate change and migration. Recordings are up at http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/events/climate-change-and-migration-asia-pacific-legal-and-policy-responses . Papers that I thought might especially interest you (given your own line of research) were François Gemenne's on the way the perception (by both media and academia) of Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07692564620435327463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-11565105690022532972011-11-20T20:45:55.639+00:002011-11-20T20:45:55.639+00:00Colin Bell: offers his reflections on the Klein pi...Colin Bell: <a href="https://sustainabilityincrisis.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/naomi-klein-could-the-heartland-institute-be-right/" rel="nofollow">offers his reflections on the Klein piece</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-12765391646024102522011-11-19T22:32:00.733+00:002011-11-19T22:32:00.733+00:00AlterNet: 10 incidents of police violence towards ...AlterNet: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153134/caught_on_camera_10_shockingly_violent_police_assaults_on_occupy_protesters?page=entire" rel="nofollow">10 incidents of police violence towards Occupy protesters</a>. And <a href="http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153111/police_chief_who_oversaw_1999_wto_crackdown_says_paramilitary_policing_is_a_disaster/?page=entire" rel="nofollowbyron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-27482718687441242512011-11-18T15:22:19.398+00:002011-11-18T15:22:19.398+00:00BI: Another benefit to being in the 1% - namely an...BI: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-kids-most-likely-to-work-for-parents-2011-11" rel="nofollow">Another benefit to being in the 1%</a> - namely an almost guaranteed job at father's company. I wonder how high that figure would go if friends' and colleagues' firms were also included?byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-41406930694837052452011-11-17T01:50:03.475+00:002011-11-17T01:50:03.475+00:00Guardian: Is it really 99% vs 1%? An animation of ...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation" rel="nofollow">Is it really 99% vs 1%?</a> An animation of inequality stats.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-21664511826675115552011-11-15T18:38:15.539+00:002011-11-15T18:38:15.539+00:00Land of the free, home of the brave, in which the ...Land of the free, home of the brave, in which the mayor of NYC <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/15/occupy-journalists-media-blackout?CMP=twt_gu" rel="nofollow">fears the presence of media</a> might disrupt a process carried out on the basis of health and safety considerations obviously overriding the constitution.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-28997419964699870812011-11-15T16:11:53.467+00:002011-11-15T16:11:53.467+00:00Toby - Yes, the monetisation of the economy is an ...Toby - Yes, the monetisation of the economy is an important consideration. Do you have any sense of the scale involved? I am pretty confident that many/most graphs of resource use would be almost as dramatic as the one I linked to. I have been planning for some time to post a review of a fascinating book called <i>Something New Under the Sun: An ecological history of the twentieth century</i>, byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-77503532088738251162011-11-15T00:59:56.916+00:002011-11-15T00:59:56.916+00:00When considering graphs like the "When histor...When considering graphs like the "When history was made" one, we need to be careful to mentally adjust for the monetization of services. Nowadays they are counted as economic output because we outsource and sell them to each other, but in days gone by there were plenty of services circulating which were not monetized.<br /><br />This category of services is one which the "economy&Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-21675116118518506382011-11-14T02:15:14.902+00:002011-11-14T02:15:14.902+00:00Patriarchal HIS-story in two stark images.
www.da...Patriarchal HIS-story in two stark images.<br /><br />www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel13.html<br /><br />www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel14.html<br /><br />These two images are featured in the book by Lewis Mumford titled The Pentagon of Power. A book which describes the origins and historical developments of the Invisible Mega-Machine, or the formative psychic myth/force that has Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com