Agriculture

Recent studies measuring potential health and environmental benefits from strategic dietary changes have found that modest shifts in consumption patterns can significantly reduce the global footprint of food production.

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A New Cold War Versus an Overheating World

28/08/21

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Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com

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Consortium News

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, third from left in front row, in May, visiting Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. (U.S. Air Force, Brittany A. Chase)

August 26, 2021

By 2049, Michael T. Klare says China will be a climate disaster zone, not a military superpower.

In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that country’s current capabilities, which remain vastly inferior to those of the U.S., than the world they foresee in the 2030s and 2040s, when Beijing is expected to have acquired far more sophisticated weaponry.

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All Must Change Utterly: We Need a People’s Green New Deal

27/08/21

Author:

Judith Deutsch

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The Bullet

August 27, 2021

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Standardization Needed for Carbon Credits in U.S. Agriculture

12/08/21

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The Energy Mix

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The Energy Mix

Aug. 11, 2021

Experts are calling for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to standardize and regulate the currently “uncertain” protocols for carbon credit programs.

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Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn

12/08/21

Author:

Fiona Harvey

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The Guardian

Animal farming is one of the activities producing methane, which has a warming potential more that 80 times that of CO2. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Aug. 6, 2021

IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet

Cutting carbon dioxide is not enough to solve the climate crisis – the world must act swiftly on another powerful greenhouse gas, methane, to halt the rise in global temperatures, experts have warned.

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Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism

08/08/21

Author:

Ian Angus

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Climate and Capitalism

August 1, 2021

“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)

Robbing the Soil is a new series of articles on capitalist agriculture, part of my continuing project on metabolic rifts. Your constructive comments, suggestions, and corrections will help me get it right. -IA

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Solutions to reach net-zero emissions farming

05/08/21

Author:

Claire Asher

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Mongabay

Banner image: A shepherd with grazing sheep. Image via Pixabay (Public domain).

30 July 2021

Agriculture and food account for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, making these sectors critical in efforts to address our current overshoot of the climate planetary boundary. They are also having profound impacts on freshwater, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles.

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California Insurers Abandon Farmers in Face of Wildfire Risk

30/07/21

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The Energy Mix

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The Energy Mix

fields on fire - Daria Devyatkina/Flickr

July 29, 2021

In yet another sign that our current systems are poorly equipped for the demands of climate change, California farmers are being left unprotected as insurance companies raise premiums and drop renewals to compensate for the increasing risk of wildfires.

“Nobody knows for sure how many farm owners have lost coverage, but what’s clear is that the trend has sent shock waves through California’s agricultural regions,” writes Grist.

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‘We’re not animals, we’re human beings’: US farm workers labor in deadly heat with few protections

22/07/21

Author:

Michael Sainato

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The Guardian

A farmworker in St Paul, Oregon, where a worker died of heat exposure last month Photograph: Nathan Howard/AP

16 Jul 2021

Advocates want Osha to issue federal heat standards, requiring water, shade and rest breaks

The climate crisis is endangering farm workers around the US who work outside in excessive heat throughout the year without any federal protections from heat exposure in the workplace.

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Agriculture

One of the country’s most important sources of fresh water is in peril, the latest victim of the accelerating climate crisis.

IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet

“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)

Advocates want Osha to issue federal heat standards, requiring water, shade and rest breaks

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