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During the Civil War, most famously in the siege of Atlanta, he made his mark as a proponent and practitioner of total war, scorched-earth campaigns against civilians, particularly targeting their food supplies.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“We levelled entire cities with our bombs and shell fire,” admitted the high commissioner. “We destroyed roads, public buildings, and bridges. We razed sugar mills and factories.” In the end, he concluded, “there was nothing left.”
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
In an effort to create Indigenous economic dependency and compliance in land transfers, the US policy directed the army to destroy the basic economic base of the Plains Nations—the buffalo.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Finally, we can simply destroy excess production through war and waste.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue
Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue
Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue
Joshua P. Hill • 200 (and 1)
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means
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