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‘If land could be had as easily as air, no one would pay rent’, wrote the young Engels. He could not imagine that the converse might one day become true: in an era where clean air is becoming scarce, we will soon, one way or another, be forced to pay for it.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
I sometimes wonder why anyone is talking about development at all any more, at a moment when the whole edifice is at risk of collapsing unless we throw everything we have into the fight against climate change. Certainly anyone who still thinks development is just a matter of increasing GDP growth – and thereby CO2 emissions – has yet to come to terms with the brutal facts of climate science.
Formal slavery has been eliminated, but (as anyone who works from nine to five can testify) the idea that you can alienate your liberty, at least temporarily, endures. In fact, it determines what most of us have to do for most of our waking hours, except, usually, on weekends. The violence has been largely pushed out of sight.
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