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Only Trump can get away with ruining the land of the cotton barons (wealthy elite) to restore the natural ecosystem. I may not agree with how it's being done, but this one had the right spirit. I hope he keeps it up and gives the great central swamp of California some time to recover. That would help wildfire resilience, and probably improve groundwater stores for the future. No human alive knows this ecosystem, they've just been living in its grave. As the husk dries, it's prone to burning. Let's regrow the wetlands.
With the loss of our major cotton fields and high tariffs on imports, clothing will be hard to come by.
Q-tips. Medical gauze.
We need a better relationship with clothing.
Death to fashion. Let's build something new.d
No it wont create clothing shortages. There’s enough fast fashion crap already made to keep us modest and warm for decades. I will be rocking that Ocean Pacific t-shirt from high school for another decade at least.
The medical concerns are somewhat based but cotton comes from many regions.
But if I smell what the rock is cooking, a nude protest would make for a fun news cycle.
You guys have to stop wearing Q-tips, it's not sustainable!
The deep south is poised to make a lot of money if they play their cards right. The US economy hemmed in by tariffs is powered by the south making cotton. They are the region best poised to make up the loss of supply that lake corcoran will replace.
It's time to return to our roots. It's what Trump promised and is delivering.
But please, no more (land)lords, no more masters, no more (wage)slaves.
The people that grow the crop need to get the profit.
If we can pull that off, that's a form of reparations. They get the land and the profit from the revived colonial machine to get us through a few hard years when the country really needs a cotton supply, and then when the country opens back up they get to do whatever they want with it. Infuse the region with cotton money and build a strong backbone of southern culture. Build the future MLK dreamed of. It's what you promised at inauguration. I dare you.
A chance to return to our roots and do it right. Give people land and get them growing cotton. The American way, just this time without the slavery. A chance to fix one of our mistakes.
Somehow we need to show solidarity for these workers. This could go badly for them, and they are probably the most vulnerable group of American citizens right now.
I doubt a crop rotation plan is in place.