14/07/2020
Food is not only a matter of eating. Long before it reaches grocery store shelves, the process of production unleashes a multiplicity of factors affecting the length and quality of life on earth.
Forests are cleared to create agricultural space, the atmosphere becomes warmer, diversity is systematically decreased, buffers that protect humans from animal-borne viruses–like COVID-19–are removed, soil and water is contaminated, and plants and animals are infused with substances with precarious effect.
With a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, it is not unreasonable to ask: how are we going to feed all these people?
More to the point: how are we going to feed all these people, without causing more damage?
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14/07/2020
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jul 14 2020 (IPS)* – The recent explosion of private finance has nursed the hope, dream or illusion that it can be mobilized for the public good, e.g., to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, associated with Agenda 2030. However, such hopes ignore how changes in financial investing have deeply transformed corporations, national economies and prospects for the world economy and social progress.
Private finance boom
Private capital has exploded with financial deregulation from the late 20th century.
Global finance increased 53% from 2000 to 2010, reaching some US$600 trillion (ten times annual world output), and was projected to reach US$900 trillion by the end of this year.
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14/07/2020
Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to imminent human extinction, that is, human extinction within five years: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G, and biodiversity collapse.
Robert Burrowes
Moreover, as I have documented previously, under cover of the non-existent ‘virus’ labeled COVID-19, the global elite is conducting a coup against humanity.
That is, by bombarding us with fear-mongering propaganda to focus our attention on the ‘virus’, the capacity of virtually all people, including activists, to devote attention to the coup, and to resist it, has been effectively eliminated. See ‘The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup: Fighting for Our Humanity, Our Liberty and Our Future’.
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14/07/2020
A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on 13 July 2020 called for the question of school re-openings to be included as part of comprehensive, data-driven COVID-19 public health strategies, and not a politically-driven decision-making process. *
© UNICEF/Shiraaz Mohamed | Children wear masks at a pre-school in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Responding to questions from reporters at the regular
WHO press briefing in Geneva, Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said “we can’t play Whack-a-mole. We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.
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14/07/2020
(UN News)* — In much of the world, “hunger remains deeply entrenched and is rising”, the UN chief said on 13 July 2020, launching this year’s major UN food security update, highlighting that over the past five years, tens of millions of people have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished.
FAO/Nozim Kalandarov | Women farmers harvest grains in Gisar, Tajikstan.
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Christine Sheppard, in her backyard in Oceanside, California in March 2018, said she sprayed Roundup for years to control weeds on her coffee farm in Hawaii. In 2003, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which is now in remission but the cancer treatment causes her severe pain in her hands and legs. © 2018 AP Photo/Gregory Bull
