>From: "Mark Jones"
>I find this concept of bioregionalism increasingly interesting in
>unexpected ways.
Me too! It's really got a lot of action in play right now.
>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 have been giving a lot of thought to that and I'd prolly do it in some 3-d
way that would examine the market's degree of "penetration" on a map with
geological features only. Make sense?
[snip] ...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....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.
yeah, there is sooo much to look at!
>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?
Jared Diamond's book is the first major work that caught all our
(enviro-freaks) attention. Before that it was "introductory essay" time and
a lot of groping in the dark by a few guys with good instincts. That should
give an indication of how new the approach is. So there is a lot of open
ground to cover yet. Exciting!
Tom
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