Pay attention: Our food system is broken
Hunger and obesity are symptoms of the same problem. Activist Raj Patel’s latest film follows a Malawian farmer as she cares for the Earth while growing crops.
“If you are not anxious at the moment, there must be something wrong with you. How can you not be? All the data suggests that we are fucked,” says filmmaker and food activist Raj Patel.
Industrial agriculture is an aspect of capitalism contributing to rendering the world ultimately uninhabitable. Patel’s film The Ants and the Grasshopper explores this.
“Capitalism works by stealing from nature. Now all these bills are coming due,” Patel says. “We are living in a climate crisis, and we are running out of planet to destroy … In the past, we’ve dodged a lot of bullets”, but the future holds no guarantees.
We have entered the sixth mass extinction. This time, humans are largely responsible for the destruction. Given this, Patel warns that the only viable alternative is to make a U-turn, changing our actions to be in harmony with other species that contribute to the balance of life.
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