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Let’s Not Learn to Love Disaster Countries often focus on disasters within their borders, overlooking floods, fires and storms elsewhere. Scientist Stan Cox suggests that entire economies must be restructured in an opinion essay for Al Jazeera: “Governments and corporations worldwide … have built entire economies that depend on huge energy inputs and ever-expanding consumption, and they can't back out now.” Disasters are not so natural or inevitable, he argues: Poor community, road and dam construction, agriculture and forestry planning exacerbates the consequences of landslides, floo...

Can the Free Market Solve the Climate Emergency? Electric vehicle producers sure want you to think so. In the past year, unprecedented wildfires on the West Coast gave California a seemingly perpetual sepia makeover; the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic quickly outpaced the National Hurricane Center’s ability to name them; and Texas’s entire power grid went down during an extreme winter storm, killing dozens, if not more. All of these events are linked to climate change.  The people who have been forced to live in this intensely individualist society, especially people of col...

By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTryanny! Let’s take a trip to fantasyland, to a world in which the U.S. addresses climate change in a meaningful way. What does a meaningful response to climate change entail? Among other things, it means enacting the following two policies — energy rationing and conscription — and starting to enact them now. (Both are inevitable, of course, but probably not until after it matters, and not in an orderly way.) Energy Rationing Let’s look at rationing first, then turn to conscription. To paraphrase something I wrote in 2019 (“The El...

7 Min Read (Reuters) - Investors used to brush off Amin Jadavji’s pitch to buy Elevate Farms’ vertical growing technology and produce stacks of leafy greens indoors with artificial light. “They would say, ‘This is great, but it sounds like a science experiment,’” said Jadavji, CEO of Toronto-based Elevate. Now, indoor farms are positioning themselves as one of the solutions to pandemic-induced disruptions to the harvesting, shipping, and sale of food. “It’s helped us change the narrative,” said Jadavji, whose company runs a vertical farm in Ontario, and is building others in...

USA-AGRICULTURE/INDOOR (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV):FOCUS-Investors seed indoor farms as pandemic disrupts food supplies