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a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the
... See moreHoward Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Much of what free trade has brought about is what gets called “the race to the bottom,” the quest for the cheapest possible wages or agricultural production, with consequent losses on countless fronts. The argument is always that such moves make industry more profitable, but it would be more accurate to say that free trade concentrates profit away
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
If Flagler and Jefferson Browne had been wrong in predicting that “the products of the West Indies and Caribbean sea will be ferried across from Cuba and taken by the railroad for distribution to all parts of the U.S.,” and that “with the completion of the Nicaraguan Canal, Key West would be a port of call for no small part of the shipping of the w
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
But retreat—or surrender—was not in Henry Flagler’s nature. He turned to Meredith’s second-in-command, William J. Krome, the strapping young civil engineer who had led the ill-fated mapping expeditions through the wilds near Cape Sable; without hesitation,
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
As he saw it, the benefits to the country outweighed the potential personal costs of contaminated water. Every industrial practice came with risks.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
By 1890, then, Key West was the most populous city in Florida, with its port ranked as the thirteenth busiest in the nation and its one by four miles of territory built and overbuilt already. By the time Joseph Parrott arrived, there was simply no more land to be had, certainly not enough for Flagler’s ambitious plans. “There is no more dry land in
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible, as Polanyi predicted, for our personal impoverishment and the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas, and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled govern
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