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FlyingLess: In a piece that you wrote and that was published in Nature, you assert that the Paris climate agreement constitutes “a genuine triumph of international diplomacy,” while at the same time arguing that it “risks being total fantasy.”² Why do you say this?

Editor: Can you provide us with some background on the Global Labor University and its place within the labor movement?

Thank you to the Center for Global Justice for hosting us.² I've been in San Miguel for a little over three years, and my passion and life's work is regenerative agriculture. I've been involved in a continual learning progress in organic agriculture over the past seven years. I studied International Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma; I was also born and raised in Oklahoma. I went to live and work in South Africa for a year after I graduated and that is where I found agriculture being employed as an avenue of social change and as the solution to global climate change.

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ACTION GROUPS

350.org www.350.org; team@350.org Brooklyn, New York International campaign to build a movement around solutions to the climate crisis.

1worker1vote.org 1worker1vote.org; info@1worker1vote.org 1worker1vote.org and Mondragon International North America are building a national network of unionized worker-owned cooperative businesses to overcome inequality of opportunity, mobility, and income.

Editor: You have spoken about the ethics and values of cooperatives, but your perspective goes well beyond the notion of individual cooperatives. Can you tell me a little bit about the cooperative context? How has Cooperation Jackson emerged and how does it relate to other projects?

How did you first come to act on ecological issues?