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A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for EnvironmentalismThe Sharecropper’s Story and An Ethics for Environmentalism

A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism: The Sharecropper’s Story and An... [The progress and now the danger of American Prosperity has relied on the treatment of the Earth as “land.” The story of “lands” around the Atlantic include people viewing the Earth as “Mother,” as “sacred,” and a gift, and as a thing. While the English Common Law treated land as property, the Latin/Roman view saw land as having a “social function.” This view seems implicit in the decision of freed Blacks after the Civil War to choose sharecropping over wages. They believed that “the tillers of the soil should be guaranteed possession of the land” (from the Creed of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union). Returning to the sharecroppers’ desire opens the possibility of changing the current course of history by taking reciprocity or “balanced social relations” as our guiding star. Balancing social relations would entail reparations of unbalanced relations and sharing a city’s land wealth with all the city’s inhabitants.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for EnvironmentalismThe Sharecropper’s Story and An Ethics for Environmentalism

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
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978-3-030-77362-5
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117 –133
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10.1007/978-3-030-77363-2_8
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[The progress and now the danger of American Prosperity has relied on the treatment of the Earth as “land.” The story of “lands” around the Atlantic include people viewing the Earth as “Mother,” as “sacred,” and a gift, and as a thing. While the English Common Law treated land as property, the Latin/Roman view saw land as having a “social function.” This view seems implicit in the decision of freed Blacks after the Civil War to choose sharecropping over wages. They believed that “the tillers of the soil should be guaranteed possession of the land” (from the Creed of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union). Returning to the sharecroppers’ desire opens the possibility of changing the current course of history by taking reciprocity or “balanced social relations” as our guiding star. Balancing social relations would entail reparations of unbalanced relations and sharing a city’s land wealth with all the city’s inhabitants.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Pawnees; Mother Earth; English and Latin view of land; Social function of land; Sharecroppers; Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union; Reciprocity; Reparation; Henry George

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