Tom wrote:
> The fertility issue is only separated out as long as you draw lines on the
> map in youir mind and fail to realize that there is a kind of bioregional
> and demographic linkage between the US and, say, Bangladesh.
I find this concept of bioregionalism increasingly interesting in unexpected ways.
What I'm wondering about is how you'd map the world market (which as you say does
not respect frontiers, or at least, only in highly mediated ways) onto the
biogeography of the planet. I wonder how isomorphic is the fit between bioregions
(and their physical correlations) and the world market, the world division of
labour, and between the bioregions regions and world-system models of
core/peripheries (I've never seen even a signle reference to bioregionalism in eg
Andre Gunder Frank, Immanuel Wallerstein etc, altho some world-system folks are
definitely very aware of the issue, both spatially and historically, see for eg
Goldtsone's papers on the crashlist website).
This is a fruitful topic. It is a new way of accessing the history of conflict,
competition, iomperial predation and strugglke for hegemony between different zone
over long historicla periods: the Mediterranean, Americas, Asia, Africa, northenr
Europe. It raises prfound questions about the impacts of global warming on different
zones, on possible benefits to temperate zones and possible dieback of savannah,
rainforest in tropical zones etc.
There is an awful lot to think about here and what is especially good is that it
allows one to speculate about past-capitalist transitions, where we consider new
forms of international and inter-bioregional planning. How far have the
bioregionalists done work on the interactions between biogeography, demography, and
the pattern of existing production, the skewing of infrastructure to the North and
the difficulty of ever building up equivalent infrastructure in the Souith in
conditions of energy-famines and climate change?
Mark
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