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Why Lockdowns Work
Why Lockdowns Work There was another comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday questioning the function and wisdom of various lockdowns. I thought I’d explain this in more detail. Ilargi if you or anyone else could explain what the exit strategy is from a lockdown I’d be interested in hearing it. As it is, this lockdown […]
Will Civilization’s Response to COVID-19 Lead to a More Sustainable, Equitable World?
Will Civilization’s Response to COVID-19 Lead to a More Sustainable, Equitable World? What better time to shift our thinking and actions away from a hyperconsumptive, inequality-widening, environmentally-detrimental era than the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Having been shaken to our collective core by the COVID19 pandemic, can we muster the will to make major changes […]
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger As Cargill prepares to reopen, voices from the frontlines of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. They fear the virus. They are concerned about the futures. They worry for their communities. And they say neither the government nor two foreign-owned companies, which account for 70 per cent of […]
Lockdowns Ending but Their Politics Still Rule
Lockdowns Ending but Their Politics Still Rule While it looks like the worm is turning against the draconian economic shutdowns decreed by governments, so much damage has already been done it likely won’t matter now. I began the week hopeful that my home state of Florida would lead the way towards challenging the anti-human and […]
Backwards into the Future
Backwards into the Future No, I’m still not over the fact that they all initially missed the virus when they should have seen it most of all. The reasons why must be evaluated in every single location, in governments, CDC equivalents and obviously the WHO. A main reason is that they were all focusing on […]
The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, Part 2
The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, Part 2 In Part 2 of The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, I discuss and build upon the ideas from Part 1, in which I discuss the continuing misinformation being spread about the pandemic, the various creators of the pandemic narrative that includes not only State […]
Where to Get Seeds When Online Sources are SOLD OUT
Where to Get Seeds When Online Sources are SOLD OUT With the current shift in the economy, and with supply lines being interrupted all around the nation, there has been a massive – massive! – spike in the number of people interested in growing a garden this spring. Hundreds of thousands – possibly millions – […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 2
Permaculture and Money – Part 2 Living and Giving Abundance In part 1 of this article series we looked at the curious concept of money and how it can be seen to be contributing to the institutional violence of much of modern society. This part will look at some alternative ways of viewing and interacting with money, […]
Movie review of Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”
Movie review of Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Preface. This documentary was made by Jeff Gibbs, a writer and environmentalist, with Michael Moore as the executive producer. I watched the movie and then read 20 criticisms of it. None were any good, it is as if the reviewers had watched an entirely different movie. […]
A light at the end of the Covid tunnel?
A light at the end of the Covid tunnel? In farming and food systems, as in every other avenue of public life, context is everything, as I said during a discussion on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’, this past Thursday. On the programme, which asked how coronavirus is threatening food security, I pointed out that all […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is finally feeling the urgency—and during a time when COVID19 has much of our frenetic commerce on hold, giving us a space for thinking and discussion–what […]
Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years
Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years Exxon Mobil Corp. has reported its first quarterly loss in 32 years amid oversupply conditions, a crashed economy, and a pandemic that continues to destroy petroleum demand. The company reported a $610 million loss for the quarter ending March 31. That is equivalent to about a 14c loss […]
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans” So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is […]
Coronavirus: Something’s Not Right Here…
Coronavirus: Something’s Not Right Here… It’s hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played? Following yesterday’s pimping of Gilead Science’s antiviral drug remdesivir on scant and suspect results, it’s hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played? We’ve argued in several past videos that there is ample enough evidence […]
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides And so we’ve reached the precarious state of disunion in which the only thing the warring elites can agree upon is that the Federal Reserve should rescue their private wealth, regardless of cost or consequences. America’s divides are proliferating and deepening by the day. The key political and economic […]
