Raj Patel
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157 appearances
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first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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As the world burns, your body is inflamed.
If you haven't felt it yet, you or someone close to you soon will.
Symptoms to look for include uncontrolled weight gain or unexpected weight loss, skin rashes, difficulty with memory, fever, troubled breathing, and chest pain.
Inflammation accompanies almost every disease in the modern world, heart disease, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer's, depression, obesity, diabetes, and more.
The difference between a mild course and a fatal course of COVID nineteen is the presence or absence of systemic inflammation.
As a consequence, the planet is inflamed.
Global temperature records are being broken, forest fires have turned from annual to perennial events, oceans are rising, and storms have become bigger and stronger.
This is the epoch of endless fire.
Human destruction is tearing apart the web of life, shredding the networks of relationships between organisms and places in which our lives are embedded.
Inflammation is a biological.
Geological, social, economic, and ecological pathway, all of which intersect, and whose contours were made by the modern world.
Thanks for having us.
Actually, it's one worldview that is about hiving humans away from the rest of the web of life.
And in fact, that there's a sort of pluriverse of different cosmologies.
There isn't one sort of indigenous worldview that has everyone getting along very well with nature like a Disney cartoon.
But the story that we tell is a story of how one worldview conquered many others, and that process of conquering was about European colonial capitalism.
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So, as a reminder, if we're interested in medicine, then it's important to remember that colonialism very consciously erased other forms of knowing about medicine and other forms of being in the world in which medicine was omnipresent.
So here's the story: Capitalism is always looking for things from which to make money.
And things don't become things by magic.
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