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I really want a conversation about what can be done to help the Arkansas farming crisis.
I'm really frustrated by everyone on the left pointing and laughing at the leopards eating faces. I'm sorry, are people losing their family farms a fucking spectacle for you?
The revolution requires alternatives. We say that, but isn't this where the alternatives are needed, right now? How about we walk the walk? How about we exercise that empathy we claim to be superior in?
Stop fucking checking out of a real fucking problem just because it happens to be MAGA country in pain.
And this isn't just a boohoo problem either. You know what I've been worried about for years and years before Trump ever set his eyes on his now golden throne? Climate change. Everyone should read Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond. The lessons from history are clear: a loss of food security doesnt mean “welp, guess we starve now”, it means means civil unrest. That history, until now, was observed in regions. But today, in the globalized food economy and global climate change that leaves nowhere to pick up the slack, climate change, now irreversible, imminent, and a death sentence for so much agriculture in the global economy means we're slowly sliding into a global crisis of food insecurity which will cause civil unrest and violence in the least agriculturally resilient and competitive countries. Do you think the US will be exempt from this? I used to. But a weak dollar, the rise of BRICS as a global finance power, and now Trump's trade war are all putting us in a precarious position for uncompetitiveness in the global agricultural economy that drives food security here in the United States. And in case its not obvious, that means more children will starve.
Yes, that's a macro view, and reality will always be messier than that, but just like dieting, it's a simple matter of inputs and outputs: the more agriculture suffers, the more will go hungry. This isn't getting better. Millennials like me know: the earth's climate outlook gives all of us humans a half-life. By x number of years, half of us will be dead.
But right now, today, our farmers are struggling against the financial models they're contractually locked into, and up to one third of all farms in Arkansas could go bankrupt and shut down while all you proclaim that they got what they voted for, and its not our problem.
IT SHOULD BE YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM.
I don't know what to do. I want people to help. What I can do to start is read more about it, ask questions, call some people, and start pushing y’all into taking this shit seriously.
