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Farm Rot is Eating America Alive
Farm Rot is Eating America Alive American politics covers up the bleeding of nature Listen to the Democratic presidential candidates Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. They promise a more democratic, equal, just, compassionate and civilized America. But the statistics they cite are numbing. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Additional millions have […]
Climate Crisis Means the Ruling Class has Failed. Can the Working Class Inherit the Earth?
Climate Crisis Means the Ruling Class has Failed. Can the Working Class Inherit the Earth? The climate crisis is proof positive that the ruling class is an utter failure — but it will not fall on its own. Can the working class rise to the challenge? It sure will help if we understand that our class […]
Chernobyl-Style Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket Explosion In Russia
Chernobyl-Style Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket Explosion In Russia Is Russia in the process of covering up a nuclear accident after a confirmed spike in radiation levels in the aftermath of a reported rocket engine explosion at a northern testing facility Thursday? Authorities confirmed the accident involved an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine”. Russia’s state nuclear […]
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics Discrediting adversarial journalists and even a legendary rock star who had criticized the health hazards of roundup weedkiller. Silencing activists and alleged victims of the company’s roundup weedkiller. These Harvey Weinsten-esque tactics were employed by Monsanto owner Bayer […]
“Insect Apocalypse:” US Farmland 48 Times More Toxic To Insects Than 25 Years Ago
“Insect Apocalypse:” US Farmland 48 Times More Toxic To Insects Than 25 Years Ago A new study shows how “insect apocalypse” is unfolding across America’s farmland since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced several decades ago. Researchers found that farmland across the country is 48 times more toxic to insect life than 25 years ago, and neonicotinoid pesticides account for a […]
SLOPPY: CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears It’s GETTING OUT Through Wastewater
SLOPPY: CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears It’s GETTING OUT Through Wastewater We may not have to wait for a traveler from the Democratic Republic of Congo to visit the United States for an Ebola outbreak. It just might be brought to us by our own military along with the plague and other […]
Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derringer, and injured at least five others. Flames towered 300 feet high when the 30-inch diameter pipe […]
Our Veggie Gardens Won’t Feed us in a Real Crisis
Our Veggie Gardens Won’t Feed us in a Real Crisis Massive flooding and heavier than normal precipitation across the US Midwest this year delayed or entirely prevented the planting of many crops. The situation was sufficiently widespread that it was visible from space. The trouble isn’t over yet: Hotter-than-normal temperatures predicted to follow could adversely affect corn […]
The Future Of Better FarmingSustainable practices + smart technology = thriving soils
The Future Of Better FarmingSustainable practices + smart technology = thriving soils While it’s *soooo* tempting to write about the stomach-churning drop/spike/dive thrill ride the financial markets have embarked on after this week’s Federal Reserve rate cut, I will resist and instead direct your attention to a topic much more important to our future. Here […]
Carmakers Face Supply Bottleneck Of This Crucial Metal
Carmakers Face Supply Bottleneck Of This Crucial Metal For Tesla and its chief competitors in the race for global domination of electric vehicle sales, it ain’t all about lithium ion. There are other valuable metals needed to make the battery packs do what’s asked of them, with nickel being essential. Tesla and its battery producer […]
Towards a landscape diet and communal landscape management
Towards a landscape diet and communal landscape management Lately I have read two articles which both claim that small scale farming is (self)exploitive and that even with direct marketing such as farmers markets, there is no profit, hardly even survival. What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living, by Jaclyn Moyer […]
Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining
Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining Preface. Everyone talks about oil spills, but what about the dirty mining that will have a huge polluting footprint on the earth, and potentially destroy the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery among other side-effects? Renewables aren’t cleaner and greener than fossils, and require a hell […]
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’ More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing — the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into […]
Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland
Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland Photograph Source: Ralf Roletschek – GFDL 1.2 Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it’s so big it’s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull’s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That’s bad news for pretty […]
Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy Old power station, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Control of oil has long been a key aim of U.S. foreign policy. The Paris climate agreements and any other Green programs to reduce the pace of global warming are viewed as threatening the aim of dominating world […]
