Malthus’s specter and the anthropocene

Ojeda, Diana; Sasser, Jade S.; Lunstrum, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2018.1553858

Cited by 66 publications

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“…The Anthropocene as the (unofficial) latest geologic epoch (Crutzen, 2002) has been roundly problematized (Baldwin and Erickson, 2020;Fagan, 2019;Ojeda et al, 2020;Simpson, 2020;Tsing et al, 2017;Tuana, 2019;Verges, 2017;Yusoff, 2019). Scholars critique the colonial, racist foundations of the Anthropocene discourse and call for careful interrogations of which sets of humanity must be held accountable for capitalist activities that contribute most to a changing climate.…”

Section: Ice and The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces

Smith

2020

Environ Plan D

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In this article I examine the enlistment of Arctic ice to tell grand, universal stories about humanity’s origins and endings. Specifically, I analyze 18th century Natural History musings that linked Arctic climate to race and human difference. I demonstrate that these musings are constitutive to an invention of pathologized migrancy across Arctic spaces that emerge as a consequence of the inability of ice to foster agricultural settlement. I call this phenomenon temperate-normativity, in which Arctic spaces of ice are produced as inferior, not meaningful on their own but read as where transit to temperate locales occurs and those who linger are consequentially rendered as aberrant. To upend temperate-normative ideals of landscape and livelihood, I analyze a poem titled “Exceeding Beringia” by Joan Naviyuk Kane (Inupiaq) wherein Inupiaq relations to more-than-human kin articulate transit and migration as a mutual, obligatory responsibility.

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Section: Ice and The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces

Smith

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…The report presents a seemingly matterof-fact causation between population change, land-use change, and climate crisis. 6 For example, ''global population growth and changes in per capita consumption . have caused unprecedented rates of land and freshwater use'' (p. 2).…”

Section: Population and Consumption As Drivers Of Degradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7 Although not the intention, the framing of population growth as a principal driver can risk problematic policy prescription. 5,6 A related problem is the insistence on per-capita metrics of resource use. Although useful, and diplomatically necessary, per-capita (total income divided by national population) measures mask two issues: (1) gross inequality within countries and (2) the unproblematic assertion that the nationstate is a base unit of analysis.…”

Section: Population and Consumption As Drivers Of Degradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The marginalization and exclusion of women and indigenous groups reflect historical development trajectories. 6 Finally, the attention to wealth only in terms of consumers and per-capita income neglects a crucial set of decision makers: those who are constantly driving and responding to policies at multiple scales as quickly as they are made. Corporations-not states-are the major mediators of trade, and their geography transcends nation-state borders.…”

Section: One Earthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Addressing Root Drivers of Land-Climate Dynamics

Munroe

McSweeney

2019

One Earth

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“…The Malthusian dilemma of a growing population versus the Earth’s carrying capacity is gaining momentum [ 1 , 2 ]. In a reality where hunger and malnutrition are the biggest risks to health worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of people [ 3 ], the total population of 7.7 billion in 2019 is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 [ 4 ].…”

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Food-Loss Control at the Macronutrient Level: Protein Inventory for the Norwegian Farmed Salmon Production System

Abualtaher

Bar

2020

Foods

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The growing world population and the growing need for food are raising the importance of more efficient and sustainable food production systems. Food loss is a significant global challenge and a major stressor on natural resources. True assessment of food loss is a precursor to its reduction. This study aimed to assess the actual food loss in the Norwegian farmed salmon production system in the year 2019 by quantifying the protein flows and stocks in the system. Protein served as an indicator substance of the true systemic food loss. This study highlights the system’s qualitative value-adding conversion of plant protein into higher quality marine animal protein, with deposited vital trace minerals harvested from the sea and carried to the human food chain. However, it takes a lot of protein from multiple sources to produce salmon. We found that the total invested feed protein is about four times more than the harvested salmon protein, and about 40% of that harvested protein in the salmon biomass departs the human food chain by flowing to other non-food industries. The current post-harvest practices, material trade-offs, and waste management solutions could be adjusted to a context that prioritizes human food security. An alternative scenario is presented in this study, based on a hypothetical new food product in parallel to the main salmon fillet product. The alternative scenario turned 99% of the harvested protein into food and adjusted the ratio between the invested marine protein and the human food product protein. The originality of this research is in its approach to food loss assessment at the industrial level by means of a systemic macronutrient (protein) inventory.

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Malthus’s specter and the anthropocene

Cited by 66 publications

References 42 publications

“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces

“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces

Addressing Root Drivers of Land-Climate Dynamics

Food-Loss Control at the Macronutrient Level: Protein Inventory for the Norwegian Farmed Salmon Production System

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