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During the 1950s and ’60s Green Revolution, methods of industrialized agriculture were adapted for tropical climates, with stunning consequences for global agricultural employment: __in the 1980s, the majority of the world’s workers were still in agriculture; by 2018 that figure had fallen to 28 percent. Thus, the major destroyer of livelihoods in the twentieth century was not “silicon capitalism” but nitrogen capitalism.__ No automatic mechanism existed within the labor market to ensure that new jobs were created for the hundreds of millions of people who were forced to exit from agriculture.

Automation and the Future of Work

Aaron Benanav

What we consume and how we consume it in an experience society may bring us together, but it does this in a momentary fashion and in that moment we are bonded above all to the economic system that defines us. It is this process that I argue sits at the heart of social change today.

The Experience Society

Steven Miles

More recently, John Bellamy Foster (Ferguson, 2018: 7) argues, ‘we have reached a turning point in the human relation to the earth: all hope for the future of this relationship is now either revolutionary or it is false.

The Climate Crisis as a Catalyst for Emancipatory Transformation: An Examination of the Possible

Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, and Brian Petersen

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