Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science by Rob Wallace

Author:Rob Wallace [Wallace, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2016-06-29T23:00:00+00:00

a declensionist colonial environmental narrative, appropriated to help justify and implement the neoliberal goals of land privatization and the intensification of agricultural production in the name of environmental protection.55

The narrative appears to be this season’s Malthusian tragedy of the commons, wherein a rabble competing for a shared resource destroys it, a straw man for fencing off the commons for the very few to ruin instead.56 In reality, even when and where nature has provided enough for nearly everyone, commons routinely have been regulated by local councils of a variety of social organization.57 Interestingly, the objection is embraced as much by some on the right who favor blocking out federal and international intervention as those on the left who favor community control.58 Such councils are never a guarantee against history—populations do collapse—but the notion of the commons’ intrinsic dysfunction is more ideology than data.

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