Sometimes it’s hard to believe that news headlines are real:
Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
One thing is clear: this is unsustainable.
I’m sure the position was bought and the university really needs the money. The austerity has been brutal for British academia. But it’s painful to watch this slow motion collapse.
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No stranger than Dubai leading the UN’s fight against global warming a few years ago? If sustainability is to mean something other than regression to preindustrial society, players in the existing power structure will need to be involved…
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Few concepts have been as tortured by liberals as sustainability. It has come to signal some sort of weird political alignment and little else.
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A conservative literary critic and college professor
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