Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Depending on who you talk to, this collapse of the global food supply could be caused by the end of peak oil, a collapse of bioversity followed by widespread crop blight, the depletion of freshwater tables, radical weather patterns caused by global warming, or the widespread disruption of global ecosystems through the continued use of synthetic chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to me. Any one of them could conceivably pose a major threat to the future of our global food supply. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They will raise your electricity bills, fill your trash with shards of glass, use up natural resources and accelerate global warming faster than any other light source on the planet today.
Are Compact Fluorescent Lights the answer?
But what about CFLs? Everybody's crazy about CFLs all of a sudden, it seems. People know that CFLs use only about 1/3rd the electricity of incandescent lights. Of course, they flicker and hum, and they take a long time to warm up, but they do save on electricity compared to the extremely inefficient incandescent light bulb. So what's not to like about CFLs? |
| It also produces ten times as much carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Want to warm the climate? Turn on the lights!
So why, then, are so many people still using incandescent light bulbs? Primarily because they have no idea what it costs to actually operate them. The fact that these light bulbs are secretly slipping dollars out of your pocket every time they're used seems to go unnoticed by most consumers. All they see is the price tag at the store. And there, incandescent lights look really cheap. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Depending on who you talk to, this collapse of the global food supply could be caused by the end of peak oil, a collapse of bioversity followed by widespread crop blight, the depletion of freshwater tables, radical weather patterns caused by global warming, or the widespread disruption of global ecosystems through the continued use of synthetic chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to me. Any one of them could conceivably pose a major threat to the future of our global food supply. |
David Steinman
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 I came to the issue of global warming because I know it is critical to our nation. The science is serious and should be considered seriously. To dismiss it as just a tool of the left is to be closed off to the truth. If we affect climate by only 1 percent, could that still be dangerous?
I obtained a copy of a hitherto secret Pentagon report that had allegedly been suppressed by U.S. defense chiefs. |
| Despite short-term setbacks, America customers can still transform themselves by 2020—if they take energy efficiency seriously and see it as a vision for economic recovery, taking on a global leadership role.
Fuel cell technology propelled the next car, a Focus, which I drove at the LOHAS conference. I was with Kip Mushisky, Ford's vehicle engineer manager. I turned the key in the ignition. Inside the car was highly pressurized liquid hydrogen, extracted from natural gas, a fossil fuel.
First, hydrogen fuel flowed into one electrode. |
| Here's how much oil improvements in fuel efficiency will save Americans (while also cutting billions of tons of global warming pollution), according to the NRDC:24
A 40-mpg standard would save more than 50 billion barrels over the next 50 years, more than 15 times the likely yield of economically recoverable oil from the Arctic Refuge. A 55-mpg standard would save more than 20 times the Arctic Refuge's likely yield.
Raising our mpg to 55 by 2020 would cut our projected oil demand in half, and save consumers almost $30 billion per year. |
| In the rapidly changing world of green business, Cargill, a company not primarily known for its environmental record, could quite suddenly become a global leader—and knowing the ripple effect green business practices and innovations have within organizations and how they inspire people, I am certain that what is going on at Nature Works is going to invigorate other aspects of CargilPs operations, infusing the company with a sprig of green consciousness. |
| When we buy plastic products, we end up perpetuating more global warming processes. But, until recently, we haven't had all that many choices. Our products are almost all packaged in, or made from, plastic. We have so many plastic molecules in our tissues by now, there might be some truth to the phrase that someone is plastic; we are, more and more, made from plastic molecules, too. We have had no choice but to be toxic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I have supplements, tinctures and living plants that offer far better influenza protection than the very best drug the global medical community can come up with. I also happen to know that our global medical community is clueless when it comes to battling infectious disease (heck, hospitals are breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant superbugs!) so I'm smart enough not to waste my time visiting doctors or hospitals if the bird flu hits. The folks at the CDC and WHO, by the way, are doing an outstanding job on the bird flu issue. Those virologists and researchers have their heads on straight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In previous articles, I've discussed the coming food bubble -- a global collapse of the food abundance we naively enjoy today. Depending on who you talk to, this collapse of the global food supply could be caused by the end of peak oil, a collapse of bioversity followed by widespread crop blight, the depletion of freshwater tables, radical weather patterns caused by global warming, or the widespread disruption of global ecosystems through the continued use of synthetic chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to me. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It will most likely happen in a gentle, nudging way -- like global climate change, infectious diseases, global pandemics and food supply shortages. Maybe there will be other little reminders, like global water shortages, typhoons, earthquakes and changes in weather patterns that affect the food supply. It will likely be these types of things that kill a lot of human beings. Not only is this is going to keep happening, but I think it's going to accelerate. We as human beings are creating the conditions that will cause these devastating events. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I also happen to know that our global medical community is clueless when it comes to battling infectious disease (heck, hospitals are breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant superbugs!) so I'm smart enough not to waste my time visiting doctors or hospitals if the bird flu hits. The folks at the CDC and WHO, by the way, are doing an outstanding job on the bird flu issue. Those virologists and researchers have their heads on straight. I have nothing against them. |
Jacky Law
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 Good PR agents work their global media contacts to show real people, but preferably celebs, managing a certain set of 'normal' symptoms with drugs. The ethical concerns are easily put to one side, if only because the practices are so widespread and the issues so complex to assess.
Osteoporosis is a classic example of how corporations have changed the way populations think about disease, in this case about bone loss. |
| Of those 23, says Ian Lloyd, managing editor of the global pharma research database, Pharmaprojects, only four can be described as significant therapeutic advances.
In the 1990s, around 40 launches per year was considered reasonable and, if anything, that number was expected to increase as pharma R&D became more efficient. However, the opposite now seems to have occurred. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When I say our global medical community is clueless about battling infectious disease, I'm talking about everyday doctors who are still handing out antibiotics like candy (and who still don't understand the important role of probiotics and friendly flora in fighting infectious disease).
That's why, if the pandemic strikes, I'll be especially careful to avoid contact with medical personnel (who are far more likely to be infected). Instead, I'll start munching away on my antiviral plants, foods, herbs and medicines. |
| Official strategy #2: Stockpile Tamiflu, a drug that will have its entire global inventory wiped out in a matter of days following an outbreak. Tamiflu isn't even being shipped to the U.S. now, thanks to bulk drug importers who are hoarding available supplies.
Official strategy #3: Tell people not to worry. Don't sweat it. We've got you covered. As much as 30% of the U.S. population might be infected, but don't worry. We're from the government, and we're here to help. |
David Steinman
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| Ecomagination is driven by our belief that applying technology to solving problems is great business," said Immelt. "We're launching ecomagination not because it's trendy or moral, but because it will accelerate our growth and make us more competitive."
"Imagine if we discovered a new resource," GE said in its October 17, 2005, two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. "One that could help solve the problems of energy-hungry world. At GE, we think we've discovered just that. We call it ecomagination. |
Jacky Law
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| On 5 June 1981, the first official report of what is now a global pandemic appeared in the weekly newsletter of the US Federal Centers for Disease Control. The report stated that a rare parasitic lung infection had shown up in Los Angeles in five young men. Moreover, all the men had an inexplicably depressed immune function. This date is now known as the start of the worst plague in modern history, AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).
Before then, young men like Stewart Anderson had been diagnosed with what was known as Gay Syndrome, a mystery plague that mostly killed gay men. |
| A real commitment to bringing more variety and range to the global research effort would not necessarily be impaired by the spending power of biggest players being cut down to size. On the contrary.
The previous chapter showed how smaller companies are already challenging the supremacy of pharma, and in particular, its model of business built around the blockbuster drug. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And I'm willing to be we'll never get the true story about this global release of H2N2 by a lab that can only says, "Oops."
We got lucky this time. But when you're dealing with infectious disease, you can only thumb your nose at nature so many times. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It will most likely happen in a gentle, nudging way -- like global climate change, infectious diseases, global pandemics and food supply shortages. Maybe there will be other little reminders, like global water shortages, typhoons, earthquakes and changes in weather patterns that affect the food supply. It will likely be these types of things that kill a lot of human beings. Not only is this is going to keep happening, but I think it's going to accelerate. We as human beings are creating the conditions that will cause these devastating events. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I earn nothing from this global detox event, and I have not been paid to mention it here.)
Join this global cleanse and experience amazing health results
Now, you can join their global detox event going on right now, and through December, you'll cleanse your colon, kidneys and gallbladder. In early January, you'll cleanse your liver and blood, getting rid of the toxic chemicals lodged in your tissues thanks to chemicals in food, personal care products, pharmaceuticals and home environments. |
Jacky Law
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| The significance of this is more apparent if one considers pharma innovation as a basic global utility where, instead of water or gas or oil, ideas circulate through the pipelines. In times of drought, when these ideas, for any number of reasons, stop translating into useful drugs, companies can continue to thrive at the taxpayers' expense because very few questions are asked about what goes on in those pipelines.
The longer the drought, the greater the pressure for answers, however, and the greater pharma's need for money just to stay on an even keel. |
| The debates on fluoride in the water supply, on the other hand, along with genetically modified food, animal experimentation, stem-cell research, global warming, and anything else that affects us collectively, are still largely conducted by people the general public has very little to do with.
Doctors and patients
The doctor-patient relationship may be grossly imperfect in healthcare systems that neglect the time required to develop it, but it is arguably the most underrated resource there is for creating robust public health and reducing levels of anxiety. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Right now, we have food companies growing genetically modified crops that, if subjected to unlucky gene mutations, could potentially wipe out significant portions of the global food supply, leading to devastating famine and a sharp decline in the global population. That's not fiction: It's the status quo in modern agriculture today. No special effects required.
The FDA and various food processing companies are also pushing for new regulations that would mandate the mass irradiation of all foods. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 On a global scale, these adverse health implications may take as much as a century to correct. In the developing world, many people are suffering from massive calorie deficiencies, in addition to a general micro-nutrient inadequacy. Indeed, the world is threatened by ongoing pandemics of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, and, potentially, avian influenza that are being driven by the mineral impoverishment of global soils and the poorer quality food they are producing. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Global Health SPF 30 Body ($35for 4.2 ounces) is less impressive than the global Health SPF 30 Face above, primarily because it lacks significant amounts of antioxidants and contains enough alcohol to be potentially irritating. It does feature avobenzone for sufficient UVA protection.
© $$$ Full Benefits Lip Plumper Hydrator & Exfoliator ($28 for 2.34 ounces) claims that "In clinical studies, [it]... demonsttated a statistically significant 56% decrease in dry, flaky surface skin. |
Dawson Church
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 Understand tke global Context of Healing
Fantastically healthy people cannot thrive on a dying planet. As a society, we have to wake up to the ways in which our personal health fits into the picture of global healing, and vice versa. This will lead to sustainable, rational approaches to health care, rather than medical systems that pay no attention to the waste and cost they incur. |
Charles Barber
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 There were many, many worlds left for Americans to conquer, or at least fight or sometimes just defend, in the upcoming century—Europe during the world wars, communism, the global economic marketplace, the global cultural marketplace ...
Perhaps it is possible to identify the exact moment that the American Frontier was symbolically closed—at just about ten in the evening on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. That moment of transcendence—"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"—was also the moment at which we had pushed the physical world to the maximum. |
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