CT302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Soil Fertility, Environmental Racism, True History
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Our culture pays precious little attention to the particular vulnerabilities of children, let alone developing life 427. Mossville is a textbook case for environmental racism 429. As a culture we do a very poor job of protecting, valuing or even noticing fertility 430. Economy built on fossil fuels: lethal when extractivism goes wrong and when it goes right 434. Many examples of bottom-up threats, endangering the youngest members of species 435. Originally agriculture was a self-sustaining cycle 438. Many traditional agricultural societies have developed methods to maintain soil fertility despite planting annual crops. We are built to survive, resilient, capable of adapting 442. Our systems are designed to promote more life: very antithesis of extractivism. It is primarily such cultures that have kept this alternative way of seeing the world alive 443. Countries like bolivia and ecuador have enshrined the rights of. These legal concepts are now being adopted and proposed in non-id contexts.
