Again, the old #agrarian narrative ... #scaling #society sure is tricky #business

The Independent: Jacksonville Dollar General shooter 'hated Black people', police reveal - latest
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jacksonville-shooting-dollar-general-news-b2400011.html

The old #existential #agrarian narrative showing us how well it #scales

The Guardian: How 19th-century pineapple plantations turned Maui into a tinderbox
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/maui-wildfire-water-plantations-ecology

We've been building into less and less hospitable territory and #scaling #society for our entire #agrarian history.... Nothing to see here

The Guardian US: Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city

... Is it really surprising that, as we transition from #Holocene to #Anthropocene, the defining failing characteristic of #agrarian culture is the way it's people #caste #others as #cattle? From #BTK to #genocide and their own children in between #fentanyl ... Scaling #society sure is tricky #business

#Western #culture #castesystem #slavery #karma

... Is it completely surprising that at the end of the #Holocene, a failing identifying social feature of the #agrarian is casteing #others as property like their #animals?

#btk #Anthropocene #CasteSystem #govegan

#Earth Matters: In place of a #farmbill, we need an #agrarian reform act; hope for #Pacific gray #whales
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179088/-Earth-Matters-In-place-of-a-farm-bill-we-need-an-agrarian-reform-act-hope-for-Pacific-gray-whales?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Subvert the dominant paradigm

#anarchism #agrarian #stdp #environmental

Me. My mother and Father.
Migrant worker without running water, I am getting a bath.

#whitetrash studies This has never been more important,

how American History doesn't quite cover it.

Unproductive land, hills, swamp, landless, salty, river edges, alkaline, dust bowl,
#agrarian,
#sexualattacks of women.
#eugenics, breeding, illusion of freedom,
illusion of mobility,
Move on or die.
Move on and die

Strongly recommend this book by #NickOfferman for anyone who is a fan of #WendellBerry or is into #agrarian thought

Also is the best historicsl account of the experience of the #Covid pandemic I have read this far, from the perspective of the thoughtfully #CovidCautious

And as an added bonus we learn of Nick's devotion to Johnie's in #OKC

#Oklahoma

Listen to Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/0451485041?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

Every time I read Wendell Berry I find myself yelling internally about class analysis, colonialism, and white supremacy while wishing that he had a more substantive critique of capitalism. The man, in all his agrarian wisdom, seems to ever so slightly miss the forest for trees.

#ecology #ecojustice #wendellberry #agrarian #climatecrisis #climatejustice

“This modern mind sees only half of the horse-that half which may become a dynamo, or an automobile, or any other horsepowered machine. If this mind had much respect for the full-dimensioned, grass-eating horse, it would never have invented the engine which represents only half of him. The religious mind, on the other hand, has this respect; it wants the whole horse, and it will be satisfied with nothing less.”

-Allen Tate

#Theology #Agrarian

Book 24 of ?/2022 | Scripture, culture, and agriculture by Ellen F. Davis

#Agrarian #agricology #theology #ecotheology #climatecrisis #ecojustice #ecology #farming #permaculture

I'm a historian of modern Taiwan at the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies, where I also help run the UW Taiwan Studies Program. My research is on the history of agrarian development in Taiwan and the Global South during the Cold War. I also comment on current events related to Taiwan and China.

#introduction #history #histodons #development #capitalism, #environment #STS #agrarian

On 13 December, 18:00 CET Mehdi Labzaé will present "An #agrarian reading of the #EthiopianCivilWar: entanglements of agriculture, investment, party politics, and ethnicity (#Majang, #Mettekel, #Wolqayt; 2013-2021)."

Register here: https://hornvonafrikaev.de/an-agrarian-reading-of-the-ethiopian-civil-war-entanglements-of-agriculture-investment-party-politics-and-ethnicity-majang-mettekel-wolqayt-2013-2021/