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Why Gardening Starts With Growing Good Soil
Why Gardening Starts With Growing Good Soil For two months now, we’ve been advising readers to “grow a garden” in response to the covid-19 pandemic. We’re recommending that for a number of reasons. Food security is the primary one. Domestically, several of the small number of concentrated players in our Big Ag food supply chain […]
“Scan Your Code!”: Dystopian Post-Lockdown ‘Normal’ In Wuhan Enforced By ‘Anti-Virus Patrols’
“Scan Your Code!”: Dystopian Post-Lockdown ‘Normal’ In Wuhan Enforced By ‘Anti-Virus Patrols’ The industrial hub of over eleven million people and ground zero for the global outbreak, Wuhan, has come roaring back to life but more in the way of a dystopian version of itself after the virus peaked there in February and now with almost no new infections […]
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic Don’t Dismiss the Design Option Has the planet simply had enough of people? Are there are too many of us, and this pandemic is the paramount example? It’s easy to let our minds meander this way, but we have likely had more serious pandemics (Let’s see this one reach its […]
Eight Meatpacking Plants Close In Weeks Across America Stoking Food Shortage Fears
Eight Meatpacking Plants Close In Weeks Across America Stoking Food Shortage Fears Update (April 23): Food shortages across the country are coming a lot quicker than anyone has anticipated. A total of eight meatpacking plants have already gone offline in weeks. On Thursday morning, we noted how pork shortages could hit households by the first week of May. […]
How a pandemic could bring down civilization
How a pandemic could bring down civilization Preface. Some excerpts from the article below: “The fact is that the best way for people to avoid the virus will be to stay home. But if everyone does this – or if too many people try to stockpile supplies after a crisis begins – the impact of […]
Let’s Be Less Productive
Let’s Be Less Productive HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit? Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – April 23 2002 – Avoiding Pension Crash
Blain’s Morning Porridge – April 23 2002 – Avoiding Pension Crash “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” Trump is not a complete fool. He knows enough to move oil prices up. Threaten to start a war in the Middle East. Works every time..! Sure enough stocks followed […]
Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis
Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis If you’re already overwhelmed with news of the pandemic and are coping with depression, read no further. However, if you’re a crisis responder by inclination or profession, you might start thinking food. Experts who study what makes societies sustainable (or unsustainable) have been warning for decades that […]
Earth Day 50, Under Lockdown
Earth Day 50, Under Lockdown April 22 was supposed to be a day of global celebration and protest. Fifty years ago, up to ten percent of Americans participated in thousands of local events on the first Earth Day. That mass action, which would have been widely commemorated this year, propelled early environmental policy victories that, […]
Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked ‘High-Risk’
Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked ‘High-Risk’ Chaoyang district in Beijing city was officially designated a “high-risk region” for the virus outbreak on April 19. This is the first such region outside of Hubei province, China’s CCP virus epicenter, that authorities publicly acknowledged. Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread in northeastern China’s Harbincity. Pang […]
Don’t Believe The Hype!
Don’t Believe The Hype! New optimistic coronavirus research seriously flawed. Have you read the recent studies claiming that many more people have or have recovered from the coronavirus than are counted officially? So have we. It’s great news, right? It suggests that the fatality rate is MUCH lower than currently calculated and we’re making progress […]
Fall of Akkadian empire due to climate change
Fall of Akkadian empire due to climate change Preface. Any civilization or region that survives energy decline must then survive climate change for many centuries. As far as the wind systems that collapsed the Akkadian empire, it’s already happening: “Greenhouse gases are increasingly disrupting the jet stream, a powerful river of winds that steers weather […]
The coronavirus scoreboard: The illusion of understanding and control
The coronavirus scoreboard: The illusion of understanding and control Cable television news now frames its news anchors with constantly updated coronavirus statistics, usually the number of cases and the number of dead. There is a sense of urgency in those numbers as viewers watch them tick higher. But, by definition those numbers cannot move otherwise […]
Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil
Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil As we pointed out earlier in the week, China-owned Smithfield Food’s decision to temporarily shutter the largest pork processing plant in the US, based in Sioux Falls, SD, due to a coronavirus outbreak is a much more significant even than […]
