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- Title
Framing Emerson's “Farming”: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the Rhetoric of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century.
- Authors
McMurry, Andrew
- Abstract
The article explains the rhetoric about 21st Century food security, peak oil and climate change. It examines the essay "Farming," written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It reviews how Emerson complimented the farmer as the first man wearing the influence of Nature and examines how the farmer in the modern world can be called the last man who is at odds with modern man in the use of modern technology. The author relates that impermanence of the farmer is related to the health of the economy.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; FOOD security; HUBBERT peak theory; CLIMATE change; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; FARMERS
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 3, p548
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/isle/iss065