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“... the species we eat, displacing the species we don’t, and relentlessly heating the planet. Chris Otter knows all this, but our desperate straits aren’t his main subject. Diet for a Large Planet is, instead, an account of the way this food system came into existence and the outsize role Britain played in its creation. I have to confess that I ...”

“... coercion, Tom Crook how the naturalisation of heterosexuality fed an obsession with masturbation, Chris Otter how the unfettered drive towards economic liberalism spurred environmental degradation. To anyone familiar with Foucauldian tropes, these claims will not seem very surprising: I longed for a piece arguing that some liberal practice actually made ...”

“... the problem, not the solution.In the summer of 1799​ Malthus took a trip to Norway with William Otter, a friend from Cambridge. The first edition of the Essay had appeared the previous year, and Malthus, eager to find empirical evidence for his theory, wanted to observe how other societies managed reproduction and resources. With the continent at ...”

“... are a swallow among the starlings, my dear,’ Williamson said to me – at least I wasn’t an otter among the badgers.) For the next two years or so I was in a variety of psychiatric units, and for me these were all places of safety. Regularity, a schoolgirlish gang of ill-disposed young women, no responsibilities and twice-weekly sessions with methedrine ...”