I watched this movie last night called “fast food nation” which is the adaptation of a book i read a while back. really REALLY good movie. Made my feet itchy for some environmental happenings, but also a bit disparing about how big and intertwined this mess is.
Also reading this book called I SEE RED, about this woman who got mega screwed over in business with Stephen Tindell and the warehouse.
Seems to be a theme of learning for me at the moment about big business. I really am a science geek at heart so this economics stuff is a little daunting.
i find it interesting that there are people who really do feel that money is more real than nature and the earth. i guess for many its more immediate and instant. What if it was the other way around? what if we felt more included in the environmental systems than economic ones? what if we went to work each day to work for our environmental bank balance?
Some might see that as a step back, but… is that such a bad thing? Some of us work hard to live lightly on the earth, and have pretty pitiful bank balances. AND the people with the healthy looking bank balances are the ones fucking it up for the rest of us. lets do some biomimicry here…. where is the equilibrium?
socal and environmental justice are just two iterations of the same thing really, inequalities in one lead to the other….
