The British banned shifting cultivation, which we call *jhoom*, because they couldn't tax a moving landscape or feed their timber mills with a dispersed forest. They saw our reciprocal relationship with the land as wastefulness, not wisdom. From my orchard, I know you cannot force a single, hungry system onto the land—our old apple varieties need their own rhythm, just like the forests did. Their real reason was a hungry, foreign ledger, not care for our earth.
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