Jesus, you’d think there wasn’t yet another facet of how outrageously dumb and amoral the US south was. There must have been countless powerful polities that were brought down by declining soil fertility …
Academics: “You know, even medieval peasants practiced three-field crop rotations, because a few short generations will show that monocropping is unsustainable.”
Southern Planters: “Later generations can get fucked, I want a profit now”
Luckily we never had to deal with that short-sighted mentality here in the US again, and certainly not in our current situation
Jesus, you’d think there wasn’t yet another facet of how outrageously dumb and amoral the US south was. There must have been countless powerful polities that were brought down by declining soil fertility …
Academics: “You know, even medieval peasants practiced three-field crop rotations, because a few short generations will show that monocropping is unsustainable.”
Southern Planters: “Later generations can get fucked, I want a profit now”
Luckily we never had to deal with that short-sighted mentality here in the US again, and certainly not in our current situation