Farming Food Agriculture is killing the planet From Ecosocialist Discussion By Alan Thornett This is a revised version of chapter 16 of my book Facing the Apocalypse–Arguments…
Biodiversity Climate Change Farming Food Growth Sustainability Moving to a sustainable system of food production within a degrowth paradigm From billmitchell.org I read an interesting report in the last few days – The Economics of the Food System Transformation – published…
Biodiversity Climate Change Ecosocialism Farming Food Imperialism Indigenous Peoples Just Transition Sustainability Waste Five reasons why agriculture should be central to our ecosocialist vision From Rupture magazine Jess Spear 1. Industrialised agriculture is undermining our life support systems. Wildlife populations are collapsing and many…
Biodiversity Farming Food Sustainability Could small farmers feed the world? From Climate & Capitalism The claim that small farms produce 70% of all food is a myth … but in…
Farming Food ‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds From The Guardian Analysis of EU and US shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based…
Europe Farming Food Sustainability The European Commission proposes to scrap safeguards around new GMOs The latest GM Watch newsletter Welcome to our latest Review, which focuses on the European Commission’s proposal to scrap safeguards…
Biodiversity Britain Farming Food Geographical Pollution Sustainability Waste UK river ‘dying’ after farmers lobbied government to water down protections From Open Democracy National Farmers’ Union boasted about months of lobbying to weaken enforcement of environmental regulation Billy Stockwell 13…
Biodiversity Climate Change Farming Food Fossil Fuels Sustainability With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth George Monbiot’s latest article in The Guardian Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever…
Carbon pricing Climate Change Energy Food Fossil Fuels Green New Deal Health Housing and Building Recycling Sustainability Waste When it comes to rich countries taking the environment seriously, I say: vive la France When doing the bare minimum is a radical act… George Monbiot from the Guardian. Emmanuel Macron’s government is at least…
Britain Farming Food Geographical Genetic Technology Act passes into law but still much to fight for From Thin Ice GM Freeze, Thin Ice, 5 June 2023 On Thursday 23 March, the deeply flawed Genetic Technology (Precision…