23/07/2021
22 July 2021 (UNEP)* — For the last half-century, money and meat have been a package deal: Across the globe, as wealth increases, so does consumption of animal-based foods. And by 2050, the demand for animal-based foods could increase by as much as 70 per cent.
Unsplash/Scott Warman / 21 Jul 2021
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23/07/2021
With funding from Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), FAO supported Khialy Gul (pictured above) and 37 200 smallholder farmers across Afghanistan with emergency wheat cultivation packages and cash transfers so they could meet their food and other basic needs. ©FAO/Farshad Usyan
22 July 2021 (FAO)* — Beads of sweat run down through the wrinkles of Khialy Gul’s forehead. He is harvesting his wheat field today in Nawju village in the Nangarhar province of eastern Afghanistan.
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23/07/2021
Supposedly increased social protections may just be new words for old policies.
22 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* —
John Williamson passed away on 21 April 2021. He was the economist who neatly outlined and named the ‘Washington Consensus’, the policies the World Bank, the IMF, the US Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury agreed to impose on debt-ridden countries of Latin America.
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23/07/2021
23 July 2021 (UNEP)* — Don’t be fooled by their modest appearance: mangroves are important players in some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. They provide a defense between land and sea, absorb carbon, contribute to economic and food security, and are home to some of the most rare and colourful species.
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23/07/2021
22 July 2021 (UNEP)* — It’s visible in satellite images from just off Sri Lanka’s coast: a thin grey film that snakes three kilometres out to sea before disappearing into the waves.
Wikipedia.org/Isuruhetti / 22 Jul 2021
This, experts say, is fuel oil leaking from the X-Press Pearl, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that caught fire and sank off Sri Lanka’s western coast last month.
The slick is a visceral reminder of what observers say is a slow-motion environmental disaster – one of the worst in the country’s history – and of the mammoth effort that will be needed to clean it up.
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22/07/2021
The Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily
Charles David Keeling started the monitoring of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere | Image from Wall Street International.
20 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
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22/07/2021
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CNN photo labeled “Cubans take to streets in rare anti-government protest”—but actually taken in Miami. (Note sign for Eighth Street in the background.)
A wave of protests in Cuba became the somewhat unlikely focus of global attention earlier this week, the events becoming the worldwide No. 1 trend on Twitter for over 24 hours, as celebrities, politicians and even the president of the United States weighed in on the action. A statement from Joe Biden’s office read:
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22/07/2021
It’s all about digitalization – they want to reduce life to software and end humans’ sacred relationship to their food and the land where it is grown.
- Big Tech is driving a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability and “net zero” carbon emissions
- Tech billionaire Bill Gates, now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S., is at the root of the problem, pushing technology as the only mechanism to save the world, and in so doing denying real solutions
- Shiva calls Gates’ book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” which pushes for the elimination of age-old farming traditions and widespread adoption of fake meat, “rubbish”
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