Black farmers have been driven off the land for a century. Now some are trying to reverse the process, with a climate focus.
Black farmers have been driven off the land for a century. Now some are trying to reverse the process, with a climate focus.
Interesting article tracing the historical and ideological connections between christianity, racism, and nationalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/27/only-racist-ignorance-lets-rick-santorum-think-america-was-birthed-from-nothing?utm_term=0c1bebcb282dbe81882e0445f6ee7a57&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
But for the world to be able to solve not just this immediate logistical GHG crisis but get beyond the other crises we’re causing and prevent the medieval, post-industrial theocratic fascism we’re headed for, people need to know enough to trace the causes of all the intertwined threads, and add the personal-collective-political part of our tendency toward malignant narcissism and projection.
I’m hoping that the more recent excesses of the theocrats makes the general public more aware the problem they represent, but now that we have blindly religious majority on SCOTUS, they have more practical power right now.