Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading

• 7bicycles@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  what?

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  • happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities at the cost of underdeveloping those rural communities, further alienating them and driving them to reactionary politics. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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    • 7bicycles@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities

      Genuinely asking, what does this mean?

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      • happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s similar to colonialism: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch01c.htm

        One of Marx’s first big ecological ideas was observing how sheep were transforming England. The growth of textile mills in cities meant that the cities became the economic, social, and cultural hubs. That’s the primary tax base and population centre so that’s where the money from the factories goes and where an individual has opportunities/infrastructure. Meanwhile to feed those mills and their growth you need a larger source of raw materials. That’s cotton from slave plantations and wool from English shepherds. The countryside was transformed as small farmers were displaced and nature was degraded to make more room for sheep, just as the American south became dominated by large slave plantations. The wool sells for a lower price than the shirt so they have less direct revenue coming in, the lower population density and alienation from opportunity/infrastructure both negatively impact its tax benefits, and to top it off they’re poisoned by the work of extraction and the pollution of the cities they build. Cities and markets have to grow to compete with each other, and that growth sucks the life out of rural and natural systems.

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  • culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    a reference to Marx and Engels’s assertion that the goal of communism is to eventually reconcile the division between town and country

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    • 7bicycles@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The point I’m trying to make was that this isn’t a Colorado problem, due to systems involved

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