Comments on: Good News from Botswana http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/12/good-news-from-botswana/ :::this is the way the world ends::: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ned http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/12/good-news-from-botswana/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Ned Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:04:00 +0000 http://www.wearethehollowmen.com/2006/je/good-news-from-botswana/#comment-298 This is a great post J.E. Something I had heard, but know very little about. Sounds like what happened to the aborigines in Australia (and the natives in this country). The battle for land is an issue in South America too, especially in Brazil, where small independent farmers have been conspired against and driven out by large corporations who have the money or power to keep these smaller farmers working for them or on consignment. It is a situation similar to this country right after slavery, where former slaves were free, but could not buy land or find jobs. I think it makes me painfully aware that now that we are all becoming more connected around the world, we have more responsibility than ever to each other. Borders are dissolving. As Thomas Friedman says - the world is flat again. With so many countries anxious to enjoy the spoils that we have here. It makes me evaluate what I need and what I want. How can we tell other countries to curb their appetites when ours in this country are so voracious? This is a great post J.E. Something I had heard, but know very little about. Sounds like what happened to the aborigines in Australia (and the natives in this country). The battle for land is an issue in South America too, especially in Brazil, where small independent farmers have been conspired against and driven out by large corporations who have the money or power to keep these smaller farmers working for them or on consignment. It is a situation similar to this country right after slavery, where former slaves were free, but could not buy land or find jobs.

I think it makes me painfully aware that now that we are all becoming more connected around the world, we have more responsibility than ever to each other. Borders are dissolving. As Thomas Friedman says – the world is flat again. With so many countries anxious to enjoy the spoils that we have here. It makes me evaluate what I need and what I want. How can we tell other countries to curb their appetites when ours in this country are so voracious?

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