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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Julie Livingston: Self-Devouring Growth Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Julie Livingston discusses her latest book\, Self Devouring 
 Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. T
 his talk calls into question the common assumption that econ
 omic growth is a necessary basis of well-being. It does so b
 y tracing out the collateral environmental effects of this d
 isposition\, revealing how our current climate\, pollution\, an
 d extinction crises emerge out of the ways we have organized
  our global\, national\, and local economic systems around a d
 esire for endless growth. The lecture unfolds a series of li
 nked examples of fundamental needs (water\, food\, mobility\, e
 nergy) that have been reworked around growth in the southern
  African nation of Botswana. It discusses how the systems to
  provide these needs become harnessed to growth and linked i
 n a web of consumption that are part of a system of unfoldin
 g environmental catastrophes that threaten long-term harm an
 d deprivation. Though the lecture will use Botswana\, as an e
 xample to reveal the system\, it will trace commodity chains 
 that are global in their reach\, and draw parallels in the US
  and elsewhere\, to show that this growth machine is everywhe
 re and it is unsustainable. It will draw on older histories\,
  repositories of the imagination to consider other ways to o
 rganize our world. 
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