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Peter Laslett, “The History of the Family”, in Peter Laslett and Richard Wall, ed. (1972), Household and Family in Past Time, Cambridge University Press, quoted in Robert McCorkle Netting, Richard R. Wilk and Eric J. Arnould, eds. (1984), Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group, p xxiv. The household and the family are not the same thing, and the consequences of assuming that they are were illustrated, for instance, by the clearing of the slums of Lagos with their maze of compounds and replacing them with single family apartments in suburban blocks, destroying the advantages of multiple family households for the urban poor. This is described by Peter Marris (1961), Family and Social Change in an African City: A Study of Rehousing in Lagos, Routledge & Kegan Paul, quoted in Netting et al., eds. (1984), p 18. Cf. Incrementalism.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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