OPINION: Panel discussions tend to be based on personality rather than on protection issues.
A screen from the University of Washington on “land based healing” illustrates the messaging bottleneck that modern progressives face when trying to find common ground.
According to The Daily, “diverse tones and emerging perspectives on a variety of subjects including environmental fairness” and “greening coercive environments” were present at the” Northwest Nature and Health Symposium.”
Participants learned about “decolonial job,” and the board took on a very DEI-focused perspective.
According to the student newspaper, three of the organizers stated,” We acknowledge that Western science and outside leisure have historically excluded several voices, leaving important gaps in our collective understanding of nature and the way various societies engage with it.”
We purposefully invite speakers who bring in a variety of cultural perspectives, lived experiences, and ways of knowing, in order to help shift this narrative, they wrote. Native American ways of knowing portray tribal tales as akin to scientific research and the real story.
There is a great opportunity for Left and Right to come together on some of these issues, so it is unfortunate that the panel chose to take a liberal position on crucial issues like food sourcing and land use. While the panel is focusing on DEI topics like land acknowledgement statements and frequent discussions of “decolonial work,” conservative voices will not be heard.
The” Make America Health Again” movement, or “MAHA,” is a prime example of how Left and Right work together to accomplish common objectives. The movement, which is closely related to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., emphasizes healthier foods, sustainability of the environment, and skepticism of Big Pharma and the medical establishment.
The MAHA movement’s main objective is regenerative agriculture, which proposes that farming should be done in a cycle that doesn’t degrade the land and overburden it with chemicals.
Supporters of MAHA might include initiatives like encouraging grass-fed livestock, promoting organic farming, and removing synthetic dyes from children’s cereals.
The movement, according to seasoned readers, resembles Rod Dreher’s” Crunchy Cons” in his book of the same name.
Mothers and clean eating are two topics that many young conservatives are interested in. The popularity of commentator Alex Clark’s show serves as a strong illustration of this. Her show’s topics include farming, eating grass-fed meat, and getting away from toxic materials. She is not a liberal, though, because the conservative organization Turning Point USA supports her show.
On environmental and food issues, the Left and Right have a chance to find common, toxin-free ground. However, we must first discover a common language.
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