The militias who led the attack on the Capitol were to a large extent built and emboldened by anti-environmental campaigns, largely on behalf of ranchers.
This is important, and shouldn't be forgotten.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is important, and shouldn't be forgotten.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Given the coalition of interests that has been gathering around this issue, it's unsurprising that climate science denial has shifted wholesale into denying the impacts of cattle rearing. Those who try to defend the science are fiercely attacked and sometimes threatened.
Cattle ranching, including the most damaging forms, has been rebranded as "regenerative farming", and entirely misleading claims are made about its greenhouse gas impacts. Those who practice genuine regenerative farming should resist this trend. Their currency is being devalued.
So there's a very grim nexus developing: far right militias, white supremacists, climate deniers and cattle ranchers, whose claims are being boosted by the makers of naive and unscientific documentaries for Netflix.
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