
057 - The Capitalocene, with Bob Neubauer, Part 3
General Intellect Unit
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The Sixth Mass Extinction Looks Amenable to the Analysis Outlined Here
Andreas Mollum says the ongoing sixth mass extinction looks particularly amenable to the sort of analysis outlined here. We have strong evidence that the long postponement of the crackdown on the bustling London ivory market promised by the Tories has provided continuous incentive to slaughter African elephant elephants and smuggle their tusks into Britain. But we have no signs of the elephants jumping off cliffs or otherwise committing mass suicide. So it's like... I don't agree that bio... That the way in which capitalism reorganizes and recreates nature does not have its own agency in this disaster. Like, what is this COVID crisis we are in if not exactly that?
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