Humans are like locusts devouring everything in their path
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As an addendum: despite this depressing image, Illinois still manages to be a beautiful, thriving, even wild place. This image shows a century of damage to a landscape that is millennia old; there is much we can do to repair it now, and even when we’re gone, it will go on living.
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According to the map, the majority of Illinois has been reduced to toxic industrial farm land, as has been done to most of the midwestern US
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“Reduced to toxic farmland” is a bit of a stretch. It’s nothing like the tallgrass prairie it replaced, but from the ground you can see that life still thrives in and around farmland. More importantly, we can and should restore the prairies and wetlands and even forests/
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from the pieces that are left. The damage is significant, but reversible, if we tear down the capitalist structures that encourage factory farming and build a culture of stewardship.
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