I feel like there's this huge disconnect in the global West when it comes to environmentalism: like you have to be rich and educated and leisurely enough to have the time and bother to devote to ecological sustainability and health. Like it's only if you're middle-to-upper white that you have the time and inclination to learn about this stuff, that you also do yoga and wear buddha beads and eat organic food.
There's a total refusal to see that poor people, people of colour, are *directly affected* by ecological fragility and it's their foodways and agri-knowledge that will help preserve the earth. A refusal to see that these people are often intensely active when it comes to advocating for themselves and their land. Because then the West would have to engage with them like they're intelligent people with a much-needed contribution to make, and who wants THAT?
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Date: 2010-12-02 10:30 pm (UTC)There's a total refusal to see that poor people, people of colour, are *directly affected* by ecological fragility and it's their foodways and agri-knowledge that will help preserve the earth. A refusal to see that these people are often intensely active when it comes to advocating for themselves and their land. Because then the West would have to engage with them like they're intelligent people with a much-needed contribution to make, and who wants THAT?