Writer and essayist Charles Eisenstein writes:

“A central theme of my e book on local weather is that if we’re to focus our consideration on a single substance, it must be not carbon dioxide however water. Past greenhouse results, water is essential within the methods the world maintains circumstances for all times to thrive.

One perform of water is as a automobile of warmth transport, a part of the physiology of this residing planet. Please watch this model new animated video about how vegetation affect native and world temperatures by means of the motion of water.

This video, together with companion items on the biotic pump and hydrology, comes from an rising understanding amongst many environmentalists that we’ve got made a scientific, strategic, rhetorical, and political error by lowering the ecological disaster to local weather, and the local weather disaster to carbon. Earth is finest understood as a residing being with a posh physiology, whose well being is determined by the well being of her constituent organs. Her organs are the forests, the wetlands, the grasslands, the estuaries, the reefs, the apex predators, the keystone species, the soil, the bugs, and certainly each intact ecosystem and each species on earth. If we proceed to degrade them, drain them, lower them, poison them, pave them, and kill them, earth will die a loss of life of one million cuts. She is going to die of organ failure—whatever the ranges of greenhouse gases.

That’s the reason, if I could also be so daring as to make a prediction, that we’ll see more and more dramatic derangement of climate patterns over the following few years. Certainly it has already begun. Floods, droughts, fires, anomalous warmth, chilly, moist, and dry on the improper time of 12 months will intensify—even within the absence of serious world warming. Such is already the case. I’m positive you’ve observed. The climate has been bizarre the previous few years; in some locations, devastatingly so. But, world temperatures (in response to probably the most dependable measure, satellite tv for pc measurements of the decrease troposphere) are about what they have been in 2016. The general development since measurements started is certainly a warming development (about 0.13 levels per decade), nevertheless it has not been accelerating.

Herein lies the strategic error. Having hitched the environmental wagon to the worldwide warming horse, what occurs if the horse stops working? It received’t imply that our environmental issues could have been solved. It received’t imply the disaster has been averted, if temperatures cease rising. That’s as a result of the core of the disaster is just not warming, it’s ecocide—the killing of ecosystems, the killing of life.

The video and its companion movies illustrate clearly a number of the methods this occurs. Destroying soil and vegetation, and all the opposite ecological actors they nourish and depend upon, leads on to flood-drought cycles that then get blamed on world warming. The advanced, homeostatic suggestions loops that keep stability unravel. The lack of the Amazon can deliver drought to Colorado. The lack of rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra would possibly trigger drought in China. The lack of the Congo causes floods in Nigeria. Every part is related to every little thing else.”

Learn extra: How the Environmental Motion Can Discover Its Means Once more

Martha Rosenberg writes for the OCA:

Point out the COVID-19 vaccine and the primary identify that often involves thoughts is the drug maker Pfizer. Whereas as soon as identified for its block buster capsules like Viagra and the statin Lipitor, Pfizer’s COVID-19 franchise now leads its earnings from its vaccine, which made $37 billion in 2022, to its oral COVID-19 remedy Paxlovid, which made $18 billion in 2022.

You don’t have to dig deep to seek out questions on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine advertising and marketing ways which FT (Financial Instances) termed “The most important advertising and marketing coup in historical past.”

“In contrast to AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer by no means thought-about promoting its Covid-19 shot with out making a revenue,” wrote the newspaper. Pfizer not solely “managed commercializing the vaccine in each nation besides the founders’ dwelling territories of Germany and Turkey, and China,” its vaccine value in 2021 “was successfully 4 occasions the value of J&J’s single dose shot, and 5 occasions increased than a dose of AstraZeneca’s.”

Some former Pfizer staff and authorities officers with whom The Monetary Instances spoke questioned whether or not the COVID-19 vaccine steadiness of energy had “tipped too far in Pfizer’s favor,” and Lawrence Gostin, a worldwide well being legislation professor at Georgetown College, expressed issues that Pfizer was not “wielding their energy pretty, brazenly, with a way of compassion.”

Even Moncef Slaoui, who served as head of Operation Warp Pace, was shocked at Pfizer pricing and warned Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, that the corporate may seem like benefiting from a “once-in-a- century pandemic,” reported FT although his objections might have stemmed from the 155,000 shares of Moderna inventory he owned. (Extra concerning the murky Operation Warp Pace and its army roots in a following article.)

Learn extra: Considerations About Pfizer Vaccine’s Hyperlink To Turbo Cancers

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The ecological and dietary advantages of natural meals come from the carbon-rich, nutrient-dense soil it’s grown in.

The “natural” blueberries within the grocery retailer aren’t actually natural. They’re produced “hydroponically.”  They’re grown in plastic and fed liquid fertilizer options. “Natural” hydroponic operations even get away with spraying glyphosate (Bayer/Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller) to clear the land they construct their greenhouses on!

Regenerative natural blueberry farmers like Hugh and Lisa Kent of King Grove Natural Farm in Eustis, Florida, can’t compete with massive nationwide company manufacturers like Driscoll’s.

Pretend natural is driving actual natural to extinction.

If we wish actual, soil-grown blueberries, we’ve got to purchase from farms like King Grove and boycott the fakers.

Blueberry season is now occurring in Florida and King Grove is at the moment harvesting 20 acres!

Blueberries have many health benefits and, like all plant vitamins, they’re enhanced by the standard of the soil they’re grown in.

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Learn more about blueberries’ nutrition facts, health benefits, healthy recipes, and other fun facts to enrich your diet. 

Real Organic Project

Interview with Ronnie Cummins of Natural Shoppers Affiliation and Regeneration Worldwide by Kamea Chayne, Inexperienced Dreamer:

“On this podcast episode, Ronnie sheds gentle on his path to constructing a grassroots motion of thousands and thousands of natural shoppers; why he views pretend meals, equivalent to pretend meat, as a false resolution to our damaged meals system; how this new regeneration motion may help to unify our diverse siloed actions specializing in completely different facets of our social and ecological crises; and extra.

To start out, get a glimpse under into the dialog between Ronnie and Inexperienced Dreamer Podcast’s host, Kamea Chayne.

When individuals ask what regenerative meals and farming is, the only option to clarify it’s that it’s the following stage of natural meals and farming.

There was already a practice of taking good care of the soil, not utilizing environmentally harmful chemical substances, appreciating biodiversity, and permitting animals to train their pure behaviors in natural farming.

However after we first began the fashionable natural motion, we didn’t perceive numerous issues concerning the soil and about forests and concerning the local weather disaster that we all know now.

We have to remodel, within the U.S., a number of hundred million acres, the place we’re rising genetically engineered corn and soybeans for manufacturing unit farms, again to what they have been earlier than the European settlers got here—prairies and grasslands.

Prairies and grasslands can solely be transformed away from row crops and chemical-intensive agriculture with a cooperation between the farmer, rancher, and the animals… the way in which the buffalo roamed, the way in which the wilder beasts roamed in Africa, the way in which that the keystone species we used to have within the U.S. like beavers and prairie canine.

We had a really wholesome ecosystem again when Native Individuals have been the stewards of the land. We’ve triggered a tremendous quantity of injury since then, and we’ve acquired to get these landscapes again to their pure, carbon-sequestering, fertile state.”

Listen here: Building a Grassroots Movement for the Regeneration Revolution (Interview With Ronnie Cummins of Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International)

Kate Raphael from Atmosphere Heath Information writes:

“In a first-of-its sort research, researchers discovered youngsters uncovered to the controversial herbicide have been extra seemingly in early maturity to have a set of signs that improve threat of coronary heart illness, diabetes and stroke.

Over the past decade, Dr. Charles Limbach observed one thing unusual in his household drugs apply in East Salinas, California.
Children between 5 and 15 years outdated confirmed elevated ranges of liver enzymes, an indication of liver irritation. Limbach ordered a panel of medical assessments on every affected person and repeatedly noticed the identical consequence: fatty liver illness.

“Once I educated in household drugs right here in Salinas about 30 years in the past, fatty liver was by no means even talked about,” Limbach instructed Environmental Well being Information (EHN). Now, 100 children in his apply have fatty liver illness, characterised by extra fats saved within the liver, which might result in long-term liver harm.”

Limbach learn analysis led by Paul Mills, household drugs and public well being professor at UC San Diego. Mills’ research confirmed a hyperlink between fatty liver illness in adults and publicity to glyphosate, the world’s mostly used herbicide, and the energetic ingredient in Roundup.

“This bell rang in my head,” Limbach mentioned, noting that lots of the children in his apply ate cereal merchandise from crops handled with glyphosate.

Glyphosate has additionally been linked to most cancers, and Roundup’s producer, Monsanto and its dad or mum firm Bayer, are embroiled in a whole bunch of 1000’s of cancer-related lawsuits. Glyphosate use within the U.S. has skyrocketed within the final 20 years, so whereas the research inhabitants lives in Salinas, California, an agricultural neighborhood, the findings have nationwide implications.

Lead writer Brenda Eskenazi, director of UC Berkeley’s Middle for Environmental Analysis and Youngsters’s Well being, and her workforce used knowledge from a research Eskenazi initiated 20 years prior. From 2000 to 2002, the researchers enrolled pregnant ladies and infants born within the Salinas Valley, nicknamed “America’s salad bowl” and producing practically half the nation’s lettuce. From delivery to age 18, Eskenazi’s workforce collected a whole bunch of 1000’s of organic samples, well being data and glyphosate publicity knowledge from 480 mother-child pairs.

Learn extra about this newly revealed research: Children’ Glyphosate Publicity Linked to Liver Illness and Metabolic Syndrome

OCA can promise you that we’ll not quit our widespread wrestle Hasta la Victoria, till victory. We intend to close down the biolabs; drive GMOs, poisonous pesticides, and chemical substances off the market; expose unregulated and unlabeled gene-editing and artificial biology as simply one other manifestation of reckless genetic engineering, and educate and mobilize the grassroots so we will construct an natural and regenerative future the place meals as drugs, planting peace, and participatory democracy are the norm, not simply the wished-for various.

However we’d like your assist to hold on our essential, certainly sacred, mission.

We thanks on your ongoing help. However should you haven’t donated lately, please contemplate giving us a donation right this moment.

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Ursula Billington studies on a number of the inspiring takeaways and customary threads from this 12 months’s Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC).

1. Positivity nurtures hope and seeds change – Good issues are occurring ‘under floor’, however the motion wants higher storytellers.

“‘The purpose of ORFC is to not assault the established order however to look forward: to ask what the world actually wants, what’s doable, and to indicate what will be accomplished. At all times on the agenda is the dream to revive farming to its correct place on the coronary heart of the economic system, and all of our lives.” (Co-founder Ruth West).

Constructive case research are important to bolster and drive transformation, however they’re so usually buried beneath information of on a regular basis struggles, opposing governments and world crises. The convention supplied numerous heartening examples of actual change occurring on the bottom.

From resistance against company land grabs throughout Europe equivalent to Lenteland and Vereniging Toekomstboeren within the Netherlands, Poland’s Green Żurawlów Association combat in opposition to Chevron shale gasoline exploration and the continuing struggles of the European Coordination Via Campesina; to system change successes implemented by policy as with Valencia’s democratic meals council, agri-food reform in Misiones, Argentina and the scaling up of agroecological transition in Mexico (extra from PAN here); and world examples of localised meals methods, as championed by Local Futures: the overriding message was considered one of hope embedded in sensible motion.

Revered change brokers supplied attendees with renewed inspiration and mettle. A rousing keynote from Vandana Shiva demonstrated progress made whereas additionally constructing resolve for the combat forward. As chair Jyoti Fernandes, one other key determine within the motion, mentioned, ‘Vandana herself is the seed and supply of life and hope that retains on giving.’”

Learn extra: Oxford Actual Farming Convention 2023 | Agroecology Motion Gathers for Hope and Motion

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