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A kinder, gentler GMO; what could possibly go wrong
A kinder, gentler GMO; what could possibly go wrong? The so-called CRISPR technique for editing the genes of plants and animals is being hailed as a more acceptable face of genetic engineering. After all, it doesn’t rely on the insertion of genes from one species into another—which is what previous techniques allowed and what alarmed […]
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads A series of African Swine Fever outbreaks in China is “here to stay,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday, adding that it could spread to neighboring countries in Asia. On Wednesday, the FAO assembled an emergency meeting in Bangkok consisting of […]
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents Lawyers involved in a California lawsuit against Monsanto claim to have “explosive” documents concerning the Bayer-owned agrochemical giant’s activities in Europe, according to Euronews. “What we have is the tip of the iceberg. And in fact we have documents now in our possession, several hundreds documents, that have not […]
US East Coast On Alert As Tropical Storm Florence Poised To Strengthen
US East Coast On Alert As Tropical Storm Florence Poised To Strengthen The 5 am National Hurricane Center (NHC) Report has indicated that the risk for a direct impact from Tropical Storm Florence has increased, although exactly where on the East Coast remains uncertain. Residents of the East Coast should be on heightened alert for […]
The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time Photo Source Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington | CC BY 2.0 This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives […]
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know The graph above shows methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 10,000+ years: 8000 BCE to 2018 CE. The units are parts per billion (ppb). The year 1800 is marked with a circle. Note the ominous spike. As a result of increasing human-caused emissions, atmospheric methane […]
Climate Change: What About the Marxists?
Climate Change: What About the Marxists? Photo Source Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Author John Steinbeck in 1962 asked, “Why must progress look so much like destruction?” (1) In fact, ever-expanding production of things – progress, in other words – promotes destruction in the form of climate change. Perpetrators of boundless production dominate […]
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis […]
Old TV Broadcast That Warns Of The End Of Civilization In 2040 Found As The Elite Warn Earth’s Landscape “Set to Undergo Major Transformation”
Old TV Broadcast That Warns Of The End Of Civilization In 2040 Found As The Elite Warn Earth’s Landscape “Set to Undergo Major Transformation” An old television broadcast from 1973 has been discovered that warns that things will start getting really bad on this planet around the year 2020 and that our current civilization will […]
Japan Paralyzed After Strongest Typhoon In 25 Years Makes Landfall, Killing 8
Japan Paralyzed After Strongest Typhoon In 25 Years Makes Landfall, Killing 8 Typhoon Jebi struck the heart of one of Japan’s largest metro areas on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and shutting down Osaka’s main international airport indefinitely, leaving close to 3,000 people trapped inside. The storm – the strongest on earth so far […]
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec? The question of how the Canadian provinces should deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be contentious and occasionally acrimonious. The new provincial government of Ontario has declared its intention to cancel that province’s cap-and-trade system—referring to it as “a punishing, regressive tax that forces low-and […]
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Four)
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Four) The last post introduced this weird and possibly confusing little diagram:1 The diagram frames a pathway from more conventional design processes toward what I believe permaculture is deep down really about. The conventional starting point I’m calling fabricated assembly. The radical alternative the diagram […]
A Pyrrhic Climate
A Pyrrhic Climate What does it mean to fight and win an impossible war? Battle of Chancellorsville, by Kurz and Allison, 1889 Arecent debate in twitter’s climate community illuminated a schism between those arguing that mitigating climate change is impossible and those exhorting others to continue to “fight” climate change. While the debate yielded no […]
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response Photo Source Dan Costin | CC BY 2.0 Behavior acculturated to ancestral norms, originally necessitated by occupation, is the focus of a new study in China with interesting ramifications for climate change. In general, farming requires more stable relationships than, say, herding with the constant movement of animals. Now the […]
