Robert Suits

Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. (Somewhat more active on other social media platforms!)

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Some personal news:

I'm delighted to share that starting this fall, I will be joining the department of history at University College London as Lecturer in Environmental History!

(*Lecturer ~= Assistant Professor in the US!)

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(Please feel free to reach out if you are part of the London academic community -- or if you are ever visiting/doing research there!)

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@arielronid OWID thinks the US/Argentina/Australia track each other quite closely and that they were about on par in 1960; since then the US has just slightly ticked ahead of the other two:
https://t.co/AkXmxdsnAe

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@arielronid I would suspect that Canada, Australia, Argentina are all much closer to the US than they are to the EU though.

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@arielronid will do! literally in a few days

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@arielronid True. Fun to think about!

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@arielronid ((So there are fewer chickens at any one time relative to their importance in the diet.))

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@arielronid (Chickens live very briefly given their end weight, especially compared to red meat.)

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@arielronid (Of course, the kind of meat shifts over time -- broadly from pork to beef to chicken.) (But the centrality of carnivorousness to American diet is baked in from a very early date, I'd argue, as part of a larger story about the settler colonial bundling of energy and prosperity.)

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@arielronid Arable land area stays more or less constant from, what, 1890 on? The trick was we somehow fed people a similarly meat-heavy diet on the same land even though the population quintupled.

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In our latest book review @Robert_Suits looks at Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by @danny__mac__ (@McGillQueensUP 2023).

https://t.co/kHk5WwXruJ

#envhist #bookreview #books

[Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social @SarahWieten]

Philosophy of Medicine is still a young discipline, so maybe you are the only one in the subfield at your institution.

Come hang out for an hour-ish every two weeks this fall to build community, discuss recent lit & plan where the field should go next.

https://t.co/zBixD7Noo3

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@EmilyWebz THE best

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@deindustrialpol Thank you!

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@merlemassie I'll keep in touch!