Zpatista University

Scientists have been hard at work for 40 years figuring out what's going wrong with humanity's economic relationship to the environment. Meanwhile, the world's least politically powerful people are suffering the effects of environmental over-exploitation. So in 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation began a guerilla war against the Mexican government to defend their ancestral farms and to be allowed to participate in a rational discussion about the future of their country-- which is also known as democracy. Ironically, Third World farmers understand more about biology than the average U.S. citizen, because when farmers breed plants and animals, they're making evolution happen personally. All the components of planetary biology can be seen at work on a farm. So in this book I show how Third World farmers can teach themselves more about science than the President of the United States knows. My book Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution is a companion to this book, for activists who have access to libraries and college educations.