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\"Feux<\/p>\n

Don’t you love it when a book review leaves no doubt about what to read? For example, Andrea Wulf writes, “Here is my review of Stephen Buchmann’s “The Reason for Flowers” – which is a pretty terrible book. Very rambling and not enjoyable. Shame.” She herself is\u00a0the justly celebrated author of\u00a0The Invention of Nature,<\/em> a fabulous book about the ecological visionary and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt. Ok, ignore one, read the other.<\/p>\n

Also on my reserve-at-the-library – list:\u00a0A Walk in the\u00a0<\/em>Park,<\/i> by social historian Travis Elborough. I read the attached review in the Financial Times and was sold, particularly since\u00a0the writing was claimed to have\u00a0a “Monty Python-ish strain.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/5b07fe36-2bf5-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_0445\"According to the review the book traces the history of public parks including their role (in the eye of philanthropic Victorians) to pacify the urban poor<\/em>. Post WW I park creation\u00a0was increased to enhance physical fitness in young men, having shown lamentable lack thereof when conscripted earlier. And of course now parks\u00a0are making way for ever larger number of\u00a0shopping malls… I find it interesting to learn about what social, political or economic pressures shape environments that we take for granted.<\/p>\n

Take the cultivation of poppies, for example, the plant\u00a0from which opium and its derivatives are extracted (the German company Bayer started to produce heroin in the late 1800s, sold by the truckload to combat opium addiction in the US until it became clear that it itself was highly addictive.) The review from The Guardian <\/em>below makes it clear that Julia Lovell’s book\u00a0Opium War Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China<\/em>\u00a0should be quite the eye-opener when it comes to politics and flowers.\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2011\/sep\/02\/opium-war-julia-lovell-review<\/a><\/p>\n

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Am I the only one who finds it\u00a0ironic that the West\u00a0has declared a\u00a0war on drugs in the 20th century, when Great Britain and later France declared war twice on China in the 1800s because it\u00a0tried to prohibit<\/em> Western\u00a0nations to sell opium in China? In the 1820s China had up to 10 Million opium smokers and addicts because of the import of opium by the British from Burma in exchange for the coveted Chinese tea. The emperor decided to ban the use of the opium which did not sit well with the sellers. The West was victorious in both wars\u00a0and extracted hefty concessions from China, both monetary and in terms of ceded land (think Hongkong.) More long lasting, though, is how these wars\u00a0shaped Chinese nationalism and its underlying\u00a0structural narrative. It\u00a0might still come to haunt us.\"DSC_0230\"<\/p>\n

These days Afghanistan has surpassed Burma in production of opium and participates in a multibillion dollar heroin trade that benefits not just indigent political movements like the Taliban, but also organized crime and a lot of our own financial institutions because of money laundering in Western<\/em> banks. The numbers about the production are mind boggling and can be found here\u00a0http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/crop-monitoring\/Afghanistan\/Afghan-opium-survey-2014.pdf \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

And all this from such a dainty little flower……\"DSC_0158\"<\/p>\n

Emil Nolde: Grosser Mohn \u00a0\"_wsb_467x382_Nolde+Gro$C3$9Fer+Mohn+$28rot+rot+rot$29+1942+Seebu$CC$88ll\"<\/p>\n

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