Industrial Farming Unsustainable

Better paid farm workers would do more to feed the world than bigger machines and stronger pesticides.  When the current higher yield of industrial farming is weighed against environmental, economic, and social considerations, organic farming comes out as superior in the long run.

Climate Change Spurred De-Urbanisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation has been pushed back at least 2500 years, with evidence of a pre-Harappan civilisation going back a thousand years more--enough time to develop bustling cities with basic amenities, trade, and a written language, and then lose them.

Multipolarity is Orthodox

While the Catholic Pope Francis calls walls unchristian and washes the feet of migrants, the Russian Orthodox Church makes the ethical argument for sovereignty in the face of the financial and cultural pressures of transnational elites.

"Emotional Fever" of "Loser Fish" Demonstrates Consciousness

The stress and depression experienced by confined and farmed fish has prompted the first glimmer of awareness in their farmers that our dinner has feelings too.  We can only hope that humanity's farmers will reach the same conclusion.

Big Solution For Big Problem

Faced with the prospect of having to conserve water, the United Arab Emirates is considering building a mountain to command the rain instead.  Millennia hence, no one will believe the stories.

Earthling Exceptionalism Improbable

The application of new exoplanet data to the Drake equation has added several exclamation marks to the Fermi paradox, the suggestion that we observe a problematic dearth of aliens around.  Either there are other intelligent civilisations already visiting, or we can expect our own civilisation to inevitably collapse very soon.  Possibly both.

Vegetarian diets could be bad for environment

“Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken.”

How Bill Gates Is Causing the Collapse of Traditional Farming and Local Food Economies

I want you to reimagine Africa as a vibrant continent where farmers are in control of their seed systems, are proud of their knowledge systems, share seeds from generation to generation through the age-old practice of exchange where they are self-reliant on a huge diversity of seeds under their control, where women play an important role in production decisions, seed selection, and breeding — and where our local food economies find their roots.

Hijrah and Jihad

Yes, there is a multicultural community being manufactured here, and it is benefiting these global mega-corporations and the international financial institutions that fund them. Europe and the U.S. as we know them have served their purpose, but the ideals that many in these nations still hold onto are a barrier to global corporate power, so they must be “replaced” by people who are accustomed to living under tyranny and less attached to real liberty.

Bizarre clog-wearing Hitler cult on rise in rural Germany

Barbara said: "They brought us over eggs and goat's milk. But soon we became suspicious.  

"The man with a tattoo of an imperial eagle, the man who wore a Nazi helmet when riding his motorbike."  

Mr Jahn added: "Our neighbours were widely accepted as good and helpful citizens and could spread almost undisturbed their supermen propaganda."

Farming the sea: Prize-winning model to restore ecosystems

The ocean covers seventy per cent of the earth and produces less than two per cent of our food. To grow the rest, we use almost forty per cent of the world's land and nearly three-quarters of our fresh water.

How might contact with nature promote human health?

That physical activity is not consistently related to greener environments suggests that our conceptualization of health-promoting greenspaces should center at least as much on oases as on ball fields, and on greenspaces for walking and quiet contemplation as much as on recreation areas. The findings here suggest that such oases should incorporate plants — especially trees, soil, and water (preferably moving) — and should be designed to induce feelings of deep relaxation, awe, and vitality. Providing these green oases, especially in areas where health risks are high and landscaping is sparse, might be an inexpensive, powerful public health intervention and address persisting health inequalities.

Stanford researchers find mental health prescription: Nature

"'These findings are important because they are consistent with, but do not yet prove, a causal link between increasing urbanization and increased rates of mental illness,' said co-author James Gross, a professor of psychology at Stanford."

Biodiversity reduces human, wildlife diseases and crop pests

"Their findings not only contribute substantially to a debate in ecology research, said the authors, but also have implications for public health and make a case for better management of natural systems, such as forests and croplands. The researchers suggest that biodiversity conservation programs might provide a strategy to minimize pests and mitigate disease outbreaks that are the consequence of human-induced decreases to biodiversity."

5 Reasons Why Anarchy Would be an Improvement in Human Governance

"The hope of a secure livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and spiritual freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist."

Clam gardens call into question hunter-gatherer past of B.C. First Nations

"Lepofsky said the 'pervasive' idea that First Nations were hunter-gatherers made it easier for colonists to justify taking over the land because the resource management differed from traditional European methods."

In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet

"For those wishing to expand the scope of 'global governance', sustainable development is the perfect umbrella because just about all human activity affects the environment in some way.  The phrase 'for the good of the planet' can be used as an excuse to micromanage virtually every aspect of our lives."

Chasing the Dollar, Or Doing Our Own Thing

"Islands of learning and determined liberation do exist, and will continue to flower. They will be mostly ignored for the time being, but these communities, collectives, and affinity groups will only become more valuable to the world, and more noteworthy, as the failed model of endless consuming and individualistic aggrandizement teeters and sputters."

Research findings back up Aboriginal legend on origin of Central Australian palm trees

"The concordance of the findings of a scientific study and an ancient myth is a striking example of how traditional ecological knowledge can inform and enhance scientific research."

Our world is descending into chaos, have you noticed?

"Whether or not the 'mandate of heaven' has basis in reality, history shows that the human experience is broadly defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites and that those elites reached the peak of their corruption at the times of destruction of the great human 'civilizations'. In addition, there is a wealth of evidence, most of it not in standard history text books, that shows that these human 'colony collapses' were caused by major geologic and cosmic upheavals, and were preceded by the kind of environmental, social and political chaos, ignorance, lies and greed that reign on our planet today. For those who had knowledge of this cyclical nature of human civilizations and were watching the events unfold, it may have seemed that the collapse occurred progressively. But for the majority, who submitted or succumbed to the official exhortations or subtle temptation to ignore or shut out the reality of the world around them, it came as a 'thief in night'."

"Most of all it is integral to develop a philosophy which connects us to the universe. We can look to many sources to understand our union with reality, such as the quantum sciences, religion or spirituality. No matter what we personally resonate with most, as long as we treat our fellow universe and everything in it with the same love and respect that we should be treating ourselves, we’re on the right track."