It’s the only policy that can prevent an ‘ecological meltdown.’
Stan Cox 23, Author of How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, From the Caribbean to Siberia, 3/19/2023, “Climate Policy's on Shaky Ground in the Farm Bill,” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/farm-bill-climate-ecological-renewal
The need to start a precipitous phase-out of oil, gas, and coal is more acute than ever, but federal legislation will remain out of reach as long as there’s a climate-hostile House majority. So, as the struggle against fossil fuels carries on in our states and communities, the quest for serious action in Washington on climate and ecological renewal will focus largely on the national push for a radically new kind of Farm Bill.
It is essential both to purge fossil fuels and to perennialize agriculture. No two policies are more crucial to preventing ecological meltdown.