#peasantry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #peasantry, aggregated by home.social.
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→ The planet, and human social life, depend on #peasant #farmers
https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-and-human-social-life-depend-on-peasant-farmers“Peasants, who directly manage about 10% of the land on Earth […] supply a countervailing principle to corporate extractionism and short-termism. They also preserve critical local #knowledge of land and #weather systems, and the interactions of #plants and #animals. The #peasantry is one of #humanity’s most crucial #economic, #social and #ecological resources […]”
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> ..the conflict in a #ModernizingState between the claims of #IndustrialDevelopment and those of #agriculture. For more than a decade the #MeijiGovernment had assigned priority to the former, and to the country’s rulers and intelligentsia, intent on the systematic creation of a modern #IndustrialBase, it was self-evident that when the two came into conflict, industrial needs were too urgent to be frustrated by local outbreaks of distress among the #peasantry.
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We often wonder how many highly skilled individuals never reach their full potential and destiny because their little part of the world is #droneBombed into #peasantry, and raped of its natural endowments.
Maybe we can spare a thought today for people in Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palastine, Libya and other place touched by devastating terror.
Just one minute or two.