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Dr. Nicole Morgan | Famine as a Mass Destruction Weapon. | 2022-10-12 CACOR Zoom presentation #118|
October 12, 2022 @ 13:30 - 15:30 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Morgan
Topic: Famine as a Mass Destruction Weapon
Time: Oct 12, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Dr Morgan will present an update of a previous CACOR conference held on October 16th 2018 “Food and Fat one of our first Forms of Energy”. She will re-cast her forecast within the chaotic geopolitical context which is the focus of her studies and publications. She will start with examining how “Putin the strategist” objectives with Ukraine goes far beyond his designs for NATO, natural gas transmission, and nationalist expansion. He wants the agricultural power of those perfectly positioned, well-drained, “black gold” soils, now and in the future. If he can steal Ukraine, he’ll have “the currency of currencies” (Lenin’s quote), the best possible hedge against inflation, and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change”. He is not the only one who has noticed that the scarcity of food, water and soil will be central to the remaking of the political planet on a scale without precedent.
Biography:
Dr. Morgan, full professorship at the Royal Military College of Canada, was the most recent stop in a rich and varied academic life spread over two continents and subject matter specialties. The current manifestation of these comprehensive interests is a focus on the impact of globalization on human ecology, conceived not only as the bodies of human individuals but also as a social and political bodies. Her most recent book, Haine froide published in Paris (le Seuil) in 2012 is a deconstruction of the ideology of individualism and growth in the US over 50 years.
A Queen’s National Scholar, Nicole holds a doctorate in (political) Philosophy from the University of Ottawa, a master’s degree in anthropology and sociology. She has written and published several books and many articles. She has been a public speaker in Europe and Canada and has been a friend and member of CACOR for the past seven years.