BK 66: (Jan 2, 2024) The Path to a Livable Future

Hi Everyone...

We will start off the 2024 year with our Jan 2nd meeting discussing the book The Path To A Livable Future by Stan Cox (Nov 2, 2021). With 152 reading pages it is approximately 5 pages a day. 

Check out the Bio, links and videos below:

"“ . . . some big titles will address emergencies that have outlived Trump. The Path to a Livable Future by Stan Cox, explores the connections among the many crises of the past year and a half.”—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times

2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of human life on Earth is interconnected and at risk. While the virus quickly spread across the globe, extreme weather events compounded the suffering and economic catastrophe. In the U.S., public demonstrations of outrage over the murder of George Floyd expanded to include a growing awareness of the pandemic's disproportionate impact on communities of color. In cities around the world, people took to the streets to protest racial inequity in all of its forms.

In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once. Our future depends on it.

"An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be."—Naomi Klein

"Cox lays out a refreshingly grounded roadmap for the survival of all life on earth, based on up-to-date science, and anchored in the racial justice imperative."—Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

"Above all, he shows that a healthy, just, sustainable future is possible if we reduce our ecological footprint and share the earth's gifts equitably. For this we need to organize, resist, imagine, and forge another path together."—Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology"

 

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* General Impression of the book

* Too Much of certain topics: White Supremacy/BLM/COVID/Colonialism

* How Realistic it is to make Immediate Drastic Change

* Capitalism

* Hazard pay during COVID and After

* Universal Well-Being

* Biodiversity Gone                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

* Factory Farming

* Federal Reserve                                                                         

* Bezos & Others

* WWII Rationing & Reality of Rationing today

* Refrigeration & Air Conditioning

* Book Braiding Sweetgrass

* Redefining Essential use/needs

* Cruises

* Public Lands/Pipeline and Farming to Indigenous people

* Ecocide/Ecosocialism

* Apr 2019 poll Socialism 

* Policy Routine Socialism

* Ari Video (Will be emailed to you)

** If there is anything I have forgotten please let me know!