In a tour-de-force, must-read essay, based on his new book The Empire of Necessity (which Toni Morrison calls “compelling, brilliant, and necessary”), historian Greg Grandin lays out the anatomy of a world driven to ecological destruction of the first order by the need for profits in the eighteenth century -- and today. Then it was seal-hunting, today it’s fossil-fuel hunting. Grandin shows just how old the urge to profit by destruction beyond compare is and what novelist Herman Melville saw of our terrifying future in his two great fictions, Moby Dick and Benito Cereno. This is something truly different from TomDispatch and a little masterpiece. Tom tomdispatch/blog/175798/
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:09:26 +0000
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