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Agricultural Elephant in the Room
Agricultural Elephant in the Room Abandoned dairy barn, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I find it strange Americans and, especially, scientists and politicians talk to little, if at all, about agriculture. And yet agriculture gives us food and, surreptitiously, threatens the future. Vast number of Americans live in large cities like New York, […]
Water and Cadillac Deserts
Water and Cadillac Deserts California Aqueduct near Kettleman City. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. My lengthy experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency brought me face to face with the terrors of our “modern” times. One of those awful realizations was that the leaders of America – and the leaders of other countries — are not […]
Plague and Civilization
Plague and Civilization The plague is a disease that raises its devouring and catastrophic head every so many decades and centuries, especially when humans violently disturb the natural world. The 2020 plague is one of a variety of pandemic diseases that have afflicted humans for millennia, not necessarily with the same intensity or virulence. The […]
Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason
Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender of the natural world and public health.” I first came across her work a few years ago. It was in the form of an open letter she had sent to […]
The Amazon Inferno
The Amazon Inferno One of the lasting highlights of my teaching at the University of New Orleans in 1991-1992 was my travel to Brazil in January 1992 for a conference on climate change. This was a rehearsal for the June 1992 Earth Summit on Climate Change in Rio. My conference took place in Fortaleza, a […]
The War on Nature
The War on Nature Ancient Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese and Indians respected or worshipped several gods. Those gods were usually forces of nature, which opened the mind, eyes and hearts of human beings to the mysteries, beauty and truth of the natural world. The vast human majorities of the ancient world were peasant farmers […]
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 […]
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns Photograph Source: Eric Fisk – Public Domain The best conditions for genuine discussion, for me at least, is during a feast of good food and drink. Ancient Greeks called that symposium. The wisdom behind the tradition of symposium – millennia ago and today — is simple. Friends and […]
Ecological Civilization: Could China Become a Model for Saving the Earth?
Ecological Civilization: Could China Become a Model for Saving the Earth? Peasant and industrialized agriculture facing each other — in China. Painting gifted to me by Ye Jingzhong, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. Photo: E.G. Vallianatos. Industrialized agriculture is threatening humanity with catastrophe. It feeds global warming and dissolves societies. In addition, its pesticides contaminate […]
Of Insects and Men
Of Insects and Men Photo by John Severns – Source Wikimedia Commons Invisible denizens — everywhere Insects are all over the world – in and over the waters at the edge of the seas, in and over the waters of lakes, rivers and creeks and swamps and irrigation ditches. They thrive in the forests, mountains, […]
Toxic Pesticides Assault in Utah
Toxic Pesticides Assault in Utah In 2014, I met Blaine Malquist. This was in Florida at the Pesticides Forum of Beyond Pesticides, a national organization fighting for environmental and public health protection from the use and misuse of pesticides. Mosquito fogging Malquist lives in Nephi City, Juab County, Utah. He briefly said to me that […]
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture In the 1980s, I met a retired general at a Borders bookstore in northern Virginia. He used to buy tons of military history books. I used to buy environmental and classics books. We started talking about books. But, slowly, in our discussion of Latin America, I criticized American […]
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy Photo Source Andy Powell | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchy is bad for children’s health All past civilizations protected children. It was self-evident that healthy children assured continuity, security and happiness. However, machine-powered civilizations give the illusion corporations, oligarchies, and the government control everything. Children fade in this confused […]
The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry
The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry Aedes aegypti mosquito potentially carrying the Zika virus. Courtesy Wikipedia. Researchers discovered the Zika virus in the Zika forest of Uganda – in 1947. It is a virus not much different than the viruses causing dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile fever, and […]
Chemical Deceit
Chemical Deceit Photo Source CGP Grey | CC BY 2.0 www.CGPGrey.com A friend recently put me in touch with Janet Brown (not her real name). This is a woman from Chicago who had the misfortune of renting an apartment that had been sprayed with the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Dow/DuPont produces this deleterious substance. In late […]
