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DESCRIPTION:We start a new book for the new year.  All are welcome at host Strike Debt 
 Bay Area's economics book group discussion!\nWe meet once a month.  For 
 January we are reading the first three chapters of "Limits (Why Malthus Was 
 Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care" by Giorgos Kallis (Amazon, 
 Stanford University Press).  For February, the remaining chapters.  Not a 
 problem if you will have missed January - the chapters are short and it is 
 easy to catch up for February!\nPrevious books er have discussed include 
 Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics and Ellen Brown's Banking for the 
 People.\n"In an era addicted to endless growth, Giorgos Kallis artfully 
 explores the power of limits and the surprising freedom that they can 
 unleash. A compelling―and fittingly concise―read for our times." (Kate 
 Raworth author of Doughnut Economics)\n\n"Western culture is infatuated 
 with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the 
 specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to 
 think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, 
 and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to 
 environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism 
 and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads 
 reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits 
 and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both 
 environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a 
 property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that 
 confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of 
 freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to 
 the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, 
 Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make 
 possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need." - Book 
 description.\n\nJoin us!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829673.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Reading Group: "Limits."
LOCATION:Omni Commons (check whiteboard near entrance for more specific area/room 
 location)\n4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA 
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