1318: Pandemics and land use / Luis Fernando Chaves
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You have me moved it up. |
| 0:02.0 | You have me move it up. We'll see. They go. They go. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh. |
| 0:15.0 | That man. Oh. |
| 0:17.0 | M. Miki! |
| 0:20.0 | Meehmm! |
| 0:21.0 | I feel welcome to deal. This is hell. |
| 0:41.0 | live from late capitalism where we know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. This is hell. Land is not only something to be owned, to control, to do with whatever |
| 0:48.4 | you want. It's not to be dominated or utilized most efficiently to extract as much production and profit from it. |
| 0:54.5 | Land is not to be owned privately. |
| 0:56.5 | It's not to be commodified and turned into a capital asset. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, this might all sound very radical but dating back to Pliny the Elder and before that to the Greeks it has become incredibly obvious that the large landed estates and ranches of the extremely wealthy will eventually destroy society as it did for the Greeks and they knew it as it did for the Romans and they knew it and as it appears to be doing to us now. Unless we reconsider our relationship |
| 1:26.3 | with land and all the nature that occupies it, we will destroy society again. |
| 1:31.6 | If the powerful who benefit from this disaster have their way, will continue down this path, believing their powerful narratives that overpower every other analysis and insist that if there is anyone to blame for our current state of crises |
| 1:47.0 | it's the powerless the actual victims of the powerful the powerful blame their |
| 1:52.0 | victims to rationalize the continuing of the powerful. The powerful blame their victims to rationalize the continuing of the political |
| 1:55.0 | economy that benefits them, a political economy of commodification and globalization that is the |
| 2:01.3 | root cause of the crises we face today, including climate change and the pandemic. |
| 2:06.0 | That power must be challenged or we will be forever locked in their system that rewards them for deforestation which causes pandemics that lead to more profits |
| 2:14.7 | for the powerful whose market constantly rewards their destruction of our planet. |
| 2:20.1 | Today we will try to do what we need to do to stop pandemics and that is reconsider our relationship with the land and a few when we talk to disease |
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