Date of Completion
Spring 5-12-2023
Thesis Advisor(s)
Stacy Maddern, Mary Donegan
Honors Major
Urban and Community Studies
Disciplines
Environmental Studies | Food Security | Human Ecology | Nature and Society Relations | Other Economics | Politics and Social Change | Urban Studies and Planning
Abstract
Examinations of the causal chain between ecological impacts and food shortages reveal significant impending global disturbances. This paper draws a causal link between ecological impacts and low food productivity which will lead to food insecurity and economic crises in the near term. Further, this paper argues that food insecurity may lead to the collapse of the capitalist world system. This threat is contrasted with “business as usual” climate models which, rather than depicting the collapse of the capitalist world system, depict its persistence throughout the collapse of the world ecology.
Recommended Citation
Raskin, Harrison, "21st Century Political Agronomy: Between Collapse and Apocalypse in the Capitalist World System" (2023). Honors Scholar Theses. 961.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/961