The Monster Enters, Mike Davis
The Monster Enters, Mike Davis
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The Monster Enters
COVID-19, AVIAN FLU AND THE PLAGUES OF CAPITALISM

Author: Mike Davis

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/06/2021


Synopsis

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. He sets the current crisis in the context of previous viral catastrophes, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least forty million people in three months and the Avian flu of a decade and a half ago that sounded a tocsin, disastrously ignored by those in power, for today's devastating outbreak.

In language both accessible and authoritative, The Monster Enters surveys the scientific and political roots of today's viral apocalypse. In doing so it exposes the key roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments and a capitalist global system careening out of control, in creating the ecological pre-conditions for a plague that has brought much of human existence to a juddering halt.

About Mike Davis

Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, and (with Jon Wiener) Set the Night on Fire. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad

Spiked population density of people and livestock. Policy capture by agribusiness. Underfunded and poorly managed public health infrastructure. Opacity and the undue shifting of blame onto smallholders. The inevitable clash between a public need for system change and privately-benefitting ideologues......more

Goodreads review by Mike

Mike Davis more than deserves his status not just as a solid writer but as a sociological and ecological prophet: while the fears and anxieties in The Monster at Our Door remain directed at the next avian flu pandemic - which is still an alarming concern despite the current pandemic - the additional......more