Reupping the best thing I wrote in 2024. The modern urban-rural political divide is the product of a decades long bifurcation in the political economy which has given rise to a high tech metropolitan knowledge economy & a slow growth low wage rural economy https://t.co/Eu6feLeFtG
.@PaulBongiorno on Dutton's latest attempts at baseless fear mongering:
Consider this: Every year in Australia 60,000 convicted criminals are released back into the community after serving their time. There is a 53 per cent recidivism rate. #auspolย https://t.co/0UUsxkJEmk
Although we tend to equate โruralโ with โfarm,โ small, general farms disappeared more than half a century ago. Now, agriculture has become a capital-intensive, high-tech pursuit. https://t.co/Rp9s8t7k40
@GregVann Morningside in the 1950s had unsealed streets and outhouses but we had good access to the Balmoral tram, 8A trolley bus, and the Wynnum train.
NZSSS member, Sam Carrick of @mwlr_nz talks to Radio NZ about the fragile magic of highly productive land and the new national policy introduced to try help protect it for future generations.
https://t.co/ecwUzTZXir
American Farmland Trust released a new report on how to expand #solar energy generation while strengthening farmland protection and farm viability in New York, guided by research and stakeholder input. Learn more @farmlandinfo: https://t.co/wZXZx9XfiF
Targeted restoration of degraded ecosystems on less profitable ag land has enormous potential to alleviate these problems. Farmers can cont. to produce valuable crops on their prime land, while rebuilding habitat+ sequestering carbon on more marginal land https://t.co/QVGKByVsir