Corporate Ag started with a good idea–using groundwater for agriculture. But they turned irrigation into a nuclear bomb of fraud, waste, and abuse. That same bomb’s on its way to decimating the local economy of Cochise County.
We live in an era of fraud in our county, state, and nation. The theft of our groundwater is one facet of the multi-headed beast. We see the same going on in banking, government, education, religion, and our food system. We see it in healthcare and housing. We even see it in sports.
What bothers us isn’t that fraud isn’t nice or that it’s mean-spirited. For 15,000 years of human civilization, fraud and short-sighted thinking never worked. Not even once. In time, perpetrators got caught when things started going south.
But no longer. When did we forget all that? We’ve been discussing Sohrab Ahmari’s new book Tyranny, Inc. Ahmari would put the blame on the corporatized economy.
Our campaign thinks We the People are better than this. The fact that we’re aware of Corporate Ag stealing our groundwater doesn’t make us feel smug and superior. It makes us feel sad, angry, and action-oriented.
It’s necessary to call out the mega-wasters. They’re mortgaging our grandchildren’s future. We know that, at the end of the day, everyday people will have to foot the bill. We’re the ones who’ll have to pay for the ecocide—because we always do. When corporations run the economy over a cliff, they go to Phoenix and Washington and usually come home with a blank check. They’re re-capitalized, so they can commit the grift anew.
That’s the $0.02 (two cents) from our campaign for today. What are your thoughts?