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Urban Garden Magazine--Dan Fox
Urban Garden Magazine--Dan Fox
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Date: 5/27/2010 4:00:13 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1920 times
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for Urban Garden Magazine!
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by Everest Fernandez
on entitled "Peak Human".
This is a call to get gardening.
The piece begins:
“Unsustainable” isn’t just another buzzword. It means that things cannot continue as they are, even if we want them to.
For many thousands of years, under a billion of us lived on this planet. As of February 2010, the Earth’s population is estimated to be nearly seven times that amount. Between 2006 and 2008 average world prices for rice rose by 217%, wheat by 136%, corn by 125% and soybeans by 107%. In late April 2008 rice prices hit 24 cents per pound, more than doubling the price in just seven months. In more recent years, things have only gotten worse. So, if you can’t read the writing on the wall by now, maybe it’s for the best that your deficient genes won’t linger for too much longer on the planet.
Ouch. Well, perhaps the time for euphemisms has passed? There is overwhelming and undeniable evidence that the world food shortage will knock at our doors this year. When the scale of the problem is fully acknowledged (or when it can no longer be denied) the resulting triple digit food inflation will lead panicking central banks around the globe to dump their foreign reserves in order to appreciate their own currencies and lower the cost of food imports, causing the collapse of the dollar, the treasury market, derivative markets, and the global financial system. The US will experience economic disintegration.
http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2010/02/peak-human/
1:57 pm
May 27, 2010
I met with Dan Fox
at the Natural Product Expo West March 2010.
This is a great Magazine.
http://urbangardenmagazine.com/
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The Big GMO Cover-Up
Something doesn’t quite add up about genetically modified (GM) foods.
Big biotech claims that genetic engineering is a necessary step towards feeding the world’s growing population. And yet debate still rages as to whether GM crops actually increase yields at all. Furthermore, the UN recently stated that 30,000 people a day were starving to death, but not because of underproduction of crops. It’s simply through lack of access.
Independent scientific studies raised serious alarm bells over the safety of GM foods over a decade ago. But while this made front-page headlines in European newspapers, the North American mainstream media were conspiratorially silent.
http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2009/11/the-big-gmo-cover-up-2/
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