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COVID Spreads To 60 Plants, Sparks Fear Of US Food Shortages As 2nd Wave Strikes
COVID Spreads To 60 Plants, Sparks Fear Of US Food Shortages As 2nd Wave Strikes A new report reveals the severity of COVID-19 spreading beyond meatpacking plants to food processing facilities across the US. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) outlines this new reality of how the fast-spreading virus has infected 1,200 food processing workers at 60 plants from mid-March to early June. To […]
Greta Thunberg Urges Norway and Canada to Honor Climate Commitments
Greta Thunberg Urges Norway and Canada to Honor Climate Commitments When you want a seat on the UN Security Council, the last thing you need is a teenage activist, practiced at the art of shaming government officials, working against you. However, that’s just what Norway and Canada have. Canada, Norway and Ireland are vying for […]
Will We See A New Covid-19 Spike Soon?
Will We See A New Covid-19 Spike Soon? Chris estimates we’ll know within the next 3-5 weeks State lockdowns lifting across the US. businesses and public spaces opening back up. Mass protests bringing thousands together in close quarters. Will we see a resurgence in covid-19 infections as a result? Unknown at this moment, but we […]
Forest Restoration or Forest Degradation?
Forest Restoration or Forest Degradation? These two images display a recent example of a forest “restoration” project designed to improve the “health” of a ponderosa pine forests. The area to the left of the path was recently (about a year ago) thinned and then burned. The area to the right of the trail shows what […]
CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded ‘Second Wave’ Arrives: Live Updates
CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded ‘Second Wave’ Arrives: Live Updates Summary: Scott Gottlieb explains the problem with Texas’ response Epidemiologists warn about threat of ‘second wave’ Mumbai hospitals overwhelmed Russia cases top 500k Latin America death toll tops 80k US projects nearly 200k COVID deaths by October LA County still seeing […]
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire Nato Bombing of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, 1999 (image from Wikipedia) 21 years ago, on June 10, 1999, the NATO campaign against Serbia ended after 78 days of bombing. We still don’t know […]
UN Warns of Impending Food Crisis
UN Warns of Impending Food Crisis The United Nations issued a dire warning on Tuesday that the world stands on the brink of the worst food crisis in the last 50 years, according to The Guardian. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is facing an “impending global food emergency” that could impact hundreds of […]
Human over-consumption causes far more biodiversity loss than climate change
Human over-consumption causes far more biodiversity loss than climate change Preface. Human ancestors began reducing biodiversity 4 million years ago, when large carnivores in Africa began disappearing, probably due to our ancestors stealing food predators had caught, starving them to death and eventually driving some of them extinct (Faurby, S., et al. 2020. Brain expansion […]
Texas Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Infections As US Total Tops 2 Million: Live Updates
Texas Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Infections As US Total Tops 2 Million: Live Updates Summary: NYT says US COVID cases top 2 million Texas reports another record jump in new cases Arkansas to enter phase 2 next week Rhode Island Gov says students will return to schools on Aug. 31 BBG warns 4 states […]
A ‘Biblical’ Plague Of Locusts Has Put Millions On The Brink Of Famine: “We Have Never, Ever Seen What We Have In The Last Six Months”
A ‘Biblical’ Plague Of Locusts Has Put Millions On The Brink Of Famine: “We Have Never, Ever Seen What We Have In The Last Six Months” Billions upon billions of voracious desert locusts are ravenously devouring crops over a vast portion of the globe that stretches from eastern Africa all the way to India. This […]
Three crises, one solution
Three crises, one solution The paroxysm of anger that has erupted across the US in the wake of the murder of George Floyd has been called by some observers “a tipping point”. A multicultural younger generation is showing that it is genuinely concerned about social injustice, racial inequality, and the climate crisis. The astonishing scenes […]
How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables: A Complete Guide
How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables: A Complete Guide Fresh fruits and vegetables are a healthy way to incorporate vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants into your diet. Before eating fresh fruits and vegetables, it has long been a recommendation to rinse them well with water to remove any unwanted residues from their surfaces. However, given […]
11 Nations that Collapsed because of Drought
11 Nations that Collapsed because of Drought Preface. Recently it was discovered that Assyria collapsed in the 7th century BC. Jeff Masters list ten more civilizations that failed from drought. We may be next, as Lynn Ingram, a professor at U.C. Berkeley discusses in her book: The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other […]
Pandemic, Economic Collapse, Full Societal Breakdown
Pandemic, Economic Collapse, Full Societal Breakdown “And the will of Zeus was moving towards its end.” – Homer Symbiotic Disharmony The recline and flail of western civilization beats on. Pandemic, economic collapse, full societal breakdown. The sequence grooves from one to the next with the symbiotic disharmony of a minor pentatonic scale. Peaceful protests devolved to […]
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks The food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns that were implemented on the back of the coronavirus may have long-lasting consequences. We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply chains have been disrupted, farm input systems for […]
