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Two articles from the day job

Prospects for Breeding Perennial Grain Crops August 2006, Bioscience 56: 649-659  (pdf)

Crop Domestication and the First Plant Breeders in press (pdf)


What 'they' say about Sick Planet:

"Cox’s revelatory book is a Silent Spring for the 21st century."

-- Jeffrey St. Clair

"A radical treatment proposal, to be sure, but the diagnosis is sobering."

--  The Guardian

" "The pharmaceutical and food industries are increasingly intertwined. Their public relations machines claim that they, and only they, can offer planetary salvation ... In Sick Planet, Stan Cox guides us through the chicanery and lies on which modern agricultural and pharmaceutical capitalism depend, and gives us not only a stunning indictment of our modern food and drug system, but the analytical vision to move beyond it."

--  Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System


"At the cusp of total ecological collapse, we stand in need of a corrective dose of 'radical' economics if we're to turn our ship around.   Cox's Sick Planet will be useful reading for anyone who seeks to grab the ship's wheel and to persuade others to join them. His book is a short, readable activist's crib which ranges fluently across the environmental costs of bloated corporate healthcare (and the human costs of overprescription and phoney medicalization), to the problem of industrial agriculture and "better living through chemistry."

— Sam Urquhart, GNN.TV


“Stan Cox, scientifically accomplished and politically astute, casts a sharp eye on the deadly affliction that threatens our planet, and identifies the penetration of capital into all aspects of life as the pathogen. Cox convincingly shows that only a radical attack on the roots of this disease can reverse the slide of our civilization into oblivion.”

— Joel Kovel, author, The Enemy of Nature

"Cox’s discussion of what might be called second-tier environmental problems might alarm even experts in disaster, providing worthy reminders that the ecological plagues currently making headlines are just the tip of the (melting) iceberg."

- The Texas Observer

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