Mike N.

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation cartographer
Location Chicago metropolis
Introduction geographer; environmentalist; global warming activist; sci-fi fan; eco-socialist; ex-Peace Corps. "The future is not sustainable under capitalism: eco-socialism or capitalist barbarity--there is no 3rd way!"
Interests climate change, sustainability, simple living, anarcho-primitivism, neo-luddism, primitive thought, anthropology, animal behavior
Favorite Movies Solaris (Tarkovsky), 2001 A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), Stroszek (Herzog), Children of Men (Cuarón), Brazil (Gilliam), Blade Runner (Scott)
Favorite Music Cat Stevens, Moody Blues, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., David Rovics, Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, U2
Favorite Books Walden (Thoreau), The Kingdom of God is Within You (Tolstoy), Living Poor with Style (Callenbach), The Limits to Growth (Meadows), The Disinherited (Conroy), Small is Beautiful (Schumacher), A Language Older than Words (Jensen), Brave New World (Huxley), The Dispossessed (LeGuin), A People's History of the United States (Zinn), Diet for a Small Planet (Lappe), Out Stealing Horses (Petterson), The Nick Adams Stories (Hemingway), American Rust (Meyer), Affliction (Banks), White Noise (DeLillo), Life of Pi (Martel), Earth Abides (Stewart), World Made by Hand (Kunstler), Alas Babylon (Frank), Ishmael (Quinn)