Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
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Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
industrial agriculture, we would surely change the way we eat. “Eating is an agricultural act,” as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world—and what is to become of it.
Michael Pollan • Omnivore's Dilemma
Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Moldthisismold.com
Building alternatives to extractive economics isn’t just about critiquing the system from afar/behind our screens. It’s about actively rewriting the story at the local level, where change feels personal and immediate. When those benefits are visible to the people we care about, they have the power to inspire more systemic change over time.
321 / Unmaking the extractive class
politics and anticorporate angst as on the realistic achievement of a more sensible system of food production.
James E. McWilliams • Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
The solutions are the same in ecology and technology: aggressively use the rule of law to level out unequal capital and power, then rush in to fill the gaps with better ways of doing things.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
It’s a revolution in attitudes, which is both encouraging and disturbing. On the one hand, attitudes are entirely under our control; they don’t require any fantastical technological breakthroughs. On the other hand, we have so few social precedents for such a broad, deep and international change, especially for one that needs to be so quick. It wou
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