‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay
Why Our Life’s Work is Deconstructing Your Food System.
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This article originally appeared on Resilience.org. The article is provided in its entirety here but with ADDED COMMENTARY at the bottom, discussing developments understood after its publication.
Daniel Griffith here – one of your local farmers.
Degeneration is a unifying force. Strange but surely it imbues both our scientific literature with a streamline of apolitical research and our hired political contestants with a meandering torrent of unscientific policies. But degeneration unifies these seemingly disparate streams–it is power amongst the powerful.
Degeneration and its neighbor, Climate Change, are comprehensive in their cross-the-aisle inclusivity. Their confluence with first world problems often centers as a wonderful campaign slogan. ”Don’t be a roadblock,” stumbled President Biden in a July, 2022 Press Conference. “You all have a duty…to act boldly on climate.”[1] While certain iconoclast Republican politicians rebuke Climate Change as a hoax, no one can stand firm on loose ground. Here, in the adrift soils of another dust bowl, we become unified once again.
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