Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff

Very strong first half with exhaustive research and the skills of a writer who is fresh from a grad school program. For this reader, addictions to social media collapse, peak oil and resource collapse subs on social media is getting overwhelming to handle. The author establishes a unified ideology of the pro-union and pro-public research type and examines all of the large variety of popular conflicting ideologies (right-wing malthusians are different from environmentalist malthusians, I learned) with a well-researched critique of all of it. It was a bit interesting to hear some contemporaries like Naomi Klein cited so often but criticized for personal shopping habits not pure enough for an anti-capitalist. I mean, this is a tome of honesty and honesty is always brutal.