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On this show we feature the late writer and activist Mike Davis, labeled an “urban historian,” who further took on geography, politics, economics, sociology and literature. His focus was the dislocation and separation brought on by capitalist society: people from land, work from ownership, individuals from each other, all in the service of profit. And he showed how this dislocation resulted in climate, environmental, and social disasters. His solution was communities connecting together and to the land. Mike Davis was a true intellectual visionary, who was down to get into the streets and walk his talk.

I met Mike Davis as a graduate student when he taught at UCLA in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. At the time, he was writing his incendiary and prophetic shadowing of the social and environmental calamities that the city of Los Angeles, and our world at large, continues to face. 

We begin with an introduction of Mike Davis and will come back to a question and answer by Vijay Prashad, an Indian Marxist historian and commentator. This is from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst History Department Feinberg Lecture Series from 2020.

We also feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to the U.N., more than one billion people now live in extreme poverty in mega-cities facing environmental and social collapse from perpetual and worsening climate disruptions. Mike Davis explores the meaning and the future of this radically unequal and unstable urban world. The lecture comes from a talk given at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, in 2015.

For a reading of an excerpt of Mike Davis' 'City of Quartz', and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/posts/excerpt-of-city-81328874

Mike Davis, [https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5214-the-works-of-mike-davis] who passed away in 2022, was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. Once a meat cutter and a truck driver, he was Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside, a Macarthur Fellow, and the author of more than 20 books. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990) and Late Victorian Holocausts (2001).

Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. In addition to his work with SoCal 350 and EcoJustice Radio, he is Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com/], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.

UMass Amherst Feinberg Series with Mike Davis and Vijay Prashad 2020: https://youtu.be/64IUWAhU6Ew
Rhodes College Lecture 2015: https://youtu.be/VUqlANApPgQ

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Episode 171
Photo credit: Annie Wells, LA Times

Tribute to the Late Urban Provocateur Mike Davis

În care vorbim despre gripa aviară și modurile în care capitalismul generează pandemii, pe baza cărții The Monster Enters a lui Mike Davis. 

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Cuprins

3:00 - intro: cartea Monster Enters & simping for Mike Davis
4:35 - despre virusuri, gripa aviară și H5N1
12:53 - despre guverne falimentare și molimele capitalismului
24:05 - epidemia curentă de H5N1 și COVID-19
25:34 - more simping for Mike Davis
27:06 - outro: despre oroarea industriei animaliere 

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Mike Davis, Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism, OR Books (2020).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53237780-the-monster-enters  

despre pandemia de gripă aviară H5N1 din 2021-prezent 
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230113-largest-global-bird-flu-outbreak-in-history-shows-no-sign-of-slowing 

despre cum H5N1 se răspândește printre mamifere & riscul unei pandemii umane
https://theconversation.com/as-bird-flu-continues-to-spread-in-the-us-and-worldwide-whats-the-risk-that-it-could-start-a-human-pandemic-4-questions-answered-200204#:~:text=An%20outbreak%20of%20H5N1%20avian,killed%20thousands%20of%20wild%20birds. 

*Erata: Am zis 1000 de coronavirusuri nedescoperite. Estimarea este de fapt pt 1million+ de virusuri (de toate felurile)  nedescoperite. 
https://theconversation.com/un-report-says-up-to-850-000-animal-viruses-could-be-caught-by-humans-unless-we-protect-nature-148911  

Resurse suplimentare:
Rob Wallce, Big farms make big flues: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, Monthly Review Press (2016).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29381976-big-farms-make-big-flu 

Talk by Ashley Dawson: Disaster Communism in a Time of Coronavirus, Industrial Agriculture, & Climate Change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXB47wGQLKg 

Mai în detaliu despre biologia și epidemiologia diferitor virusuri vorbește Dennis, în primul nostru episod (evăr), la începutul pandemiei COVID-19 (primăvara 2020)
https://lenesxradio.ro/episodes/-01/lenesx--01-covid-EN.html  

Arte episodului de Alis Balogh & editat de ioni
Muzică: Profit is the Virus, de Sofia Zadar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgB0GwQZiM 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3F4Ec4iFdVp4Pmzhw2Zrd1

LS. 004 — Gripa aviară, capitalismul și alte molime [RO]

We pay tribute to the late Mike Davis to explore the ongoing ecological crises facing Southern California and the socio-political dynamics that shape our responses to disaster. This is an intellectual tour de force as Davis goes deep in this recording from 1995 at the architectural school SCI-Arc, where he taught at the time. He outlines the history of damage caused by natural disasters in Southern California. Popular culture seems fascinated with the destruction of Los Angeles, and most recent events have breathed life into that narrative. 

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Davis discusses the complexity of California’s Mediterranean climate, arguing for a new “environmental epistemology.” He calls for a rethinking of California’s resource and disaster planning. Noting the extreme hydroclimatic shifts throughout California history, he suggests a disruption of capitalist hydraulic civilization in California is inevitable–and here we are. We are in serious need of an environmental rethink in any rebuilding–or rewilding–plans.

For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio 

More Mike Davis: https://wilderutopia.com/ecojustice-radio/tribute-to-the-late-urban-history-provocateur-mike-davis/

Sources:
Full show of Mike Davis 1995 Presentation from SCI-Arc https://youtu.be/evJpgKQ6YWU?si=oPJ_rzpI-45oIHys 

Mike Davis, who passed away in 2022, was a writer and urban theorist who is most known for his work demythologizing the fractured wild-urban landscape of Southern California. Once a meat cutter and a truck driver, he was Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside, a Macarthur Fellow, and the author of more than 20 books. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990) and Late Victorian Holocausts (2001). In this show we focus on his book, “The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.”


Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes a column on PBS SoCal called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.


Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ 
Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ 
Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url  
Executive Producer and Host: Jack Eidt
Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats
Episode 247
Photo credit: Ecology of Fear cover

Mike Davis On Southern California’s Landscape of Disaster

EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media.

Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.

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