I highly recommend this excellent literary anthology for anyone interested in the relationship between people and ecology in the American Gulf South from Texas to Florida.
“From lyrical descriptions of ecosystems still largely whole to disturbing accounts of political and corporate malfeasance, this collection provides a panoramic picture of where we are today and how we got here. The inclusion of many voices and perspectives from across the political and demographic spectrum emphasizes how our planetary future depends on a collective vision and communal action.”—Jana M. Giles, University of Louisiana at Monroe
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Hi Jana, given that there must be cynicism in this regard, I’m thinking of how the possibility of such “collective vision and communal action” as you mention is shown currently by the Olympics. Athletes do compete, as we academics do; but the competition in principle is not over limited resources, but over who can best produce something that we all can share in and appreciate
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Interesting thought, David, and one I will have to mull over. I don’t actually know if the Olympics are such a level playing field when it comes to resources by country, for starters.
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Hi Jana, thanks for responding. I didn’t understand how a collective vision for the planet would come about, and communal action be in fact enacted. Whenever somebody proposes something these days, somebody else rises up in competition, objecting on principle, the way people object to masks and vaccines for example. But since the Olympics were going on, I thought of them, and athletic contests in general, as an example of competition that is also a collective, communal activity, based on an underlying agreement to play by certain rules. Evidently cheating happens, and somebody like Thrasymachus in the Republic will praise this as the highest good, *if* one can get away with it. I’m not sure whether an uneven playing field would be an example of cheating or something else.
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