Great Migration

Yessssss, there was just someone talking about this at a conference I went to recently at the American Philosophical Society! They were also talking about how this process of moving to a city where you do not have access to land: 1. stopped families from passing down multigenerational gardening skills. 2. ruined food sovereignty and therefore contributed to poverty and compulsory employment. 3. contributed to the alienation of humans from the Earth, therefore increasing the likelihood of the destruction and exploitation of the Earth.

Freda Anderson Did the speaker think this was intentional or an unintended consequence?  I am sorry I missed this conference!

She did not say an opinion on this in either direction. I think this could be a very interesting discussion question though! You could tie a lot in to this too. For example the whole banana republic thing and the banana industry, as highlighted in the movie Bananaland, took people's land so that they could no longer grow their own food, so all of a sudden they HAD to work for giant agricultural corporations and buy a ton of processed foods at grocery stores when before they they were still impoverished but the impacts of their poverty was felt to much less of a degree.

Absolutely! So many different ways to go with this!

I had not heard of Bananaland before but now I have to watch it.

Fascinating Jim Jaeger !  Thanks for sharing - 

What an interesting connection! I am also curious to know if this was an unintended consequence - similar to how Brown v. BOE led to a significant decrease in the number of Black educators.

Andrea Wong So, many great avenues to pursue off of one topic!