Imagine politicians taking advantage of our ignorance of the facts to score points? Doesn’t take much to imagine does it? This time it is fear-mongering about China, Russia, Iran and North Korea buying up our farmland. This is called a red herring, a term from the early 1800s, which was most likely used first by… Read more »
February 16, 2023
Foreign countries buying up land?! It isn’t the ones you think
Imagine politicians taking advantage of our ignorance of the facts to score points? Doesn’t take much to imagine does it? This time it is fear-mongering about China, Russia, Iran and North Korea buying up our farmland. This is called a red herring, a term from the early 1800s, which was most likely used first by… Read more »
By Andrew Kang Bartlett Article originally published on Oct. 26 by Presbyterians for Earth Care It would be hard to understate the importance of land. How we use it is an existential proposition for all forms of life from the tiny to the immense. And as Malcolm X said, “Land is the basis of all…