Americanos are pissed that they can't have bananas year round if #degrowth/ #communism/ #anarchy happens. Banana availability has its roots in imperialism, destructive monocropping, and grueling agricultural labor/slavery.
We literally have a word for client states of #imperialism for the export of bananas: banana republic. Banana imports to the West is drenched in the blood of thousands massacred for your God damn commodities. In the #Philippines, companies told this instruction to banana worker syndicalists: “turn them into fertilizers for the bananas.”
On top of that is the steep ecological and carbon costs to actually shipping the damn things. Do you really need bananas year round?
There's also the problem of monocropping which destroys the biodiversity of forests to make way for plantations, even if we discount the slave labor. Monocropping has made Cavendish plantations at high risk of diseases. It could very well be that Cavendishes would become an endangered species just like the Gros Michel after nature erases its scourge. Maybe the extinction of the Cavendish is already a matter of time, rendering banana disocorse moot.
Americanos just don't understand that in a liberated world, maybe people won't be breaking their backs for some Americano to get their god damn banana. Of course degrowth/communism/anarchism means that relations to luxuries will change.
Besides, Cavendishes suck. They literally taste terrible. Y'all seriously live like this? Lakatan, Señorita, and Sabah tastes way better. Yeah, they can't be exported, boohoo. Not everything has to be a commodity, much less to please some Americano half a world away.
@abolisyonista Even if you can somehow ignore the moral axis of all of this, there's a practical one; if we cook the fucking planet, no one is going to be growing bananas for you assholes. Like, you either only get bananas sometimes, or you don't get them at all.
Even the people operating purely on self interest need to wake the fuck up to the reality that right now self interest demands that we slay the economic monster we've created before it devours us.
@abolisyonista in North America, we can eat native fruits like persimmons, American plums, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, pawpaws, cranberries, huckleberries. Our continent is very sweet. All of these contribute back to the local ecosystem.
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