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 Inform yourself with these online resources:
Seed Savers Exchange
The International Seed Saving Institute
Save Our Seeds
See the movie The future of Food or buy the DVD.
Read this great article by Devvy Kidd on the future of food.
Eating organic frozen food? Buy from Amy's Kitchen, which uses no genetically modified ingredients. |
| What's at risk: the future of human life on planet Earth
In this cartoon, the farmer character is fretting over something the entire human race is going to suddenly realize one day: Playing God with seeds and the food supply for the purpose of extracting maximum corporate profits is to plae the very future of humankind at extreme risk. Suppose the terminator gene crops somehow cross-pollinate staple food crops that now feed the world... what happens then? Imagine all the wheat grown in the United States suddenly self-destructing after a single growing season. |
Mark Lynas
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 With these dramatic weather shifts, it is scarcely surprising that north-eastern Europe and the Mediterranean have been identified as the two most prominent future climate change 'hot spots'.
Summer, not winter, will be the season Europeans dread in the four-degree world. As in any southern US city today, air-conditioning will be mandatory for anyone wanting to stay cool. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Kunstler believes that the future success of our society will require becoming more localized and community minded. He also points out that big cities in the United States today -- in contrast to their European counterparts -- are designed around the assumption that cheap oil will always be available. Most Americans commute long distances between work, grocery stores, schools and home, and these long commutes are only possible because of cheap oil.
Are we doomed when oil runs out? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the livelihood of farmers and used every tactic they could think of -- legal threats, intimidation, bribery, monopolistic market practices and many more -- to gain monopolistic control over the global food supply.
One documentary brings you this astonishing story. |
But this documentary, The future of Food can help educate consumers around the world and rally them to support an outright ban on genetically engineered crops in the food supply. After all, who wants viruses in their corn? Who wants the entire food supply owned and controlled by evil corporations that have clearly demonstrated they have no concern whatsoever for public health or sustainable farming?
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| It will not be an easy task, and it will require a lot of information and grassroots advocacy. The future of Food is a great ally in this fight, and the Center for Food Safety deserves your goodwill and financial support. Please consider donating to this organization to help fund even more pro-consumer action that challenges the regulatory failures of the USDA, FDA and EPA.
Stay tuned to NewsTarget for more pro-consumer news. We're fighting to protect life on many fronts, including challenging Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Oil and Big Government. |
| We're radical thinkers who support radical changes to create a sustainable future founded on consumer freedom, liberty and education. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Read this great article by Devvy Kidd on the future of food.
Eating organic frozen food? Buy from Amy's Kitchen, which uses no genetically modified ingredients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Whether you believe in the author's conclusions or not, this book makes for excellent reading about the future we may all face if we don't get serious about two things:
1) Reducing our energy consumption through conservation and efficiency measures. (This is part of the reason why I launched www.EcoLEDs.com and the effort to promote energy-efficient LED lighting products.)
2) Developing renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels. The most promising are wind, CSP and solar power.
So grab a bicycle. |
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| Did you ever wonder what happens when all the genetically modified, pesticide-compatible, gene-terminated, laboratory-concocted Frankenfoods end up genetically contaminating the natural crops we depend on for a sustainable food future? In a new CounterThink cartoon published today, I explore this important concept by showing the plight of a farmer fretting over an empty bag of seedless watermelon seeds.
You may find this surprising to learn, but U.S. |
Mark Lynas
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| These trends will continue in the near future: snow cover, for example, will diminish further as the warming continues. The permafrost line will continue to shift north in the one-degree world, with between 10 and 18 per cent losses projected for the Arctic region as a whole, destabilising whole areas as the ground thaws and collapses beneath buildings, roads and pipelines. Warming will further reduce sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean, with the greatest reductions coming north of the Siberian and Alaskan landmasses, where the temperatures rise fastest in the continental interiors. |
| But the model also pointed to an ominous conclusion about the future. The Amazon, Cowling's team concluded, is already nearing a critical threshold of temperature tolerance. In other words, the current hot, dry spells are pushing this vital planetary ecosystem closer and closer to the brink.
Once that threshold is crossed permanently, as it looks set to be as global warming accelerates, the entire Amazon ecosystem will collapse - with devastating and world-changing consequences. |
| Nevertheless, they insist, 'a dramatic 21st century drying trend should be considered seriously as a possible future scenario'.
This latter finding also chimes with global studies, which suggest stronger droughts affecting ever-larger areas as the world warms up. One of the most wide-ranging analyses was undertaken by Eleanor Burke and colleagues from the Hadley Centre at Britain's Meteorological Office, who used a measure known as the 'Palmer Drought Severity Index' to forecast the likely incidence of drought over the century to come. The results were deeply troubling. |
| This time the whole globe is heating up, so the past is not a perfect analogue for the future. Moreover, it would be wrong to get the impression that the more humid Sahara was some kind of verdant wonderland - rainfall totals mostly only reached 100 mm or so, enough to support only the barest savannah-type vegetation, and wetter phases would also have been interspersed with long droughts. However, computer models can help negotiate a way through the conflicting possibilities - and the answer they provide holds profound implications for all the inhabitants of North Africa. |
| With this in mind, Thompson and his team have already decided that some of the ice will be kept intact for future generations of scientists to dissect with new technologies, possibly unlocking climatic secrets still undreamt of today.
The efforts of climate change deniers to suggest that there is something special about the disappearance of Kilimanjaro's glaciers are undermined by similar changes taking place in mountain ranges right across the world, not least in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, nearly a thousand kilometres to the north-west. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm only presenting possibilities for the future -- a future when we as a civilization have enough maturity to pursue something as complex and potentially dangerous as genetic engineering. Today, we are merely infants. Most adults still act like children, and this is even more true in the fields of medicine and health technology, where full-grown adults still cling to their egos like four-year-olds. We'd have to mature a long, long way before we're truly ready to start playing God with out own genetic code. |
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 Mike: What we are seeing today is a great divergence in families and their future ability to even reproduce. For example, the families that raise their children on a healthy lifestyle, free of most of the toxic chemicals and embracing nutrition, they have a future. They have a genetic future.
Those families that live the standard American lifestyle -- heavy toxic burden, no nutrition, dependence on pharmaceuticals -- they do not have a genetic future. At some point, the infertility rates become 100 percent in those groups. Is that an alarmist statement on my part, or is that accurate?
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Michael J. Panzner
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 In a few respects, this treatment mirrors that of retiree health care benefits, where a prospective and often sizable future cost is not fully reflected on current financial statements.
The upside to treating risk as being off the balance sheet is that capital can be much more efficiently employed, creating, in effect, what could be described as operational leverage, whereby a little bit of money can go a long way. The downside, however, is that these transactions can obscure the potentially dangerous exposure that firms have. |
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| For the sake of maximizing corporate profits, the Monsanto corporation is willing to place the very future of humankind at risk. But it's no surprise to learn Monsanto is behind this crime against nature -- this is the same corporation that tried to patent the pig, claiming it owned the genetic code of hogs. This is also the same corporation that promoted aspartame to the world by purchasing a company called Searle, whose CEO was a man named Donald Rumsfeld. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They have sold out our future in a desperate grab for next quarter's profits. They're not interested in the future of America, or the health of future generations or even the pain and suffering of people battling cancer right now. They're only interested in one thing: Power. Power over people and money. And the more cancer that exists in the world, the more power they have. Cancer prevention is a threat to the cancer industry, pure and simple. And yet, at the same time, the cancer industry is a threat to America's future. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Virtually all businesses will suffer as Americans overall cut spending in favor of repaying debts or replenishing savings amid fading confidence and greater uncertainty about the future.
Ongoing geopolitical developments, including the mounting costs in lives and money in Iraq, as well as increased political discord following the 2006 elections, will likely add to the misery. Even those who seemingly have plenty to spend will hold back, as a contagious wait-to-buy mind-set, one wholly at odds with the hedonistic consumerism of earlier years, begins to spread. |
| Suddenly nervous investors began to look for "alternative" arrangements that could help them weather—and hopefully profit from—similarly unsettling conditions in the future.
At the same time, a poor operating environment and falling revenues spurred investment banks and brokerage firms to focus their attentions on this increasingly active, rapidly expanding group. But the banks and brokerages weren't just executing their transactions and financing their positions; many on Wall Street switched sides to become "hedgies" themselves. |
| The private sector generally has more freedom to deal with future promises. It can alter the terms, either by watering down benefits or eliminating so-called perks like health care coverage for retirees. Companies can also "freeze" plans so that current employees cannot accrue any more benefits than they already have.
Many firms have shifted away from defined-benefit plans altogether in favor of others, such as 401 (k) plans. |
| Aside from being "off balance sheet," many of the liabilities were obscured through the use of nebulous accounting practices and unrealistic assumptions about future interest rates, investment returns, and health care inflation. Another problem with the vast majority of OPEBs is that they were accounted for on a pay-as-you-go basis, where only current-year program revenues and expenses were recorded. That made it difficult to grasp the full extent of what is referred to as the "benefits gap," or the difference between the present value of what had been promised versus what had been set aside. |
| Certainly no small number of leaders and policymakers were somewhat aware that a difficult future beckoned. Most private pensions were governed by reporting guidelines and other requirements established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, meaning that a few concerns had already seeped into the open. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But when you avoid meat products and focus on a plant-based diet, you are creating a future filled of abundance and health. It's up to you to decide which of these futures you'd rather create.
Regardless of which future you choose, there's no judgement from me. You're free to do what you want with your life and your own body. Some people choose to abuse their bodies as chemical playgrounds, living in the moment and dying young. That's their choice. Others choose to extend their lives and honor their bodies, living an extended, purpose-filled life. That's fine, too. |
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