Gates-funded ‘green revolution’ in Africa has failed, critics say
‘the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, founded in 2006 with money from the Gates and Rockefeller foundations, has promoted an industrial model of agriculture that poisons soils with chemicals and encourages farmers to go into debt by buying expensive seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.’
What Africans need is debt cancellation and true decolonisation! If our elite rulers really want to heal the world, surely they’d do this. Instead, they continue indebting them, exploiting them, imposing industrial agriculture on them, poisoning the soil, ruining the land, fuelling the ecological crisis - which is a root cause of the climate crisis.
It’s all about control, profit, ego, stupidity!
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Our environmental problems aren't simplistically caused by CO2, just like Covid isn't simplistically caused by a virus. They’re scapegoats. The problem is the destruction of the living world, and human health, largely thanks to the kind of neo-colonization described above; the imposition of what many view as 'modern civilisation', which involves extreme toxicity, poor management, centralized power, corporate capitalism, addiction to technological ‘progress’…
We need to focus on detoxifying and healing the terrain of the planet. We need decolonization, and localised, holistic management. We need diversity of culture. We need a new kind of progress!
But these kind of changes are mostly incompatible with the interests and egos of the transnational corporations and oligarchs that rule the world.
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