Tip of the Hat to JZ Liszkiewicz
SchwartzReport: Drones to Plant One Billion Trees
Earth Intelligence
Used to perpetuate mono-culture this technology could produce disaster. But used as described it could do great good in restoring the Amazon rain forest, for instance. It would make the task doable.
Ex-NASA Engineer to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones
The company’s CEO, who might be called ‘Johnny Apple Drone’, thinks it should be possible to plant up to 36,000 trees a day, and at around 15% of the cost of traditional methods. And they aren’t just looking to create plantations of trees, but full ecosystems.
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Mini-Me: Organization of American States Fails — Obama Blocks “Right to Health Care” — Should UNASUR “Occupy” the OAS HQS?
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Huh?
U.S. Blocked Declaration of “Right to Health Care”, Says Bolivia’s President at OAS Summit
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent OAS (Organization of American States) Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point for Mr. Obama was Obama’s opposition to a provision in the proposed declaration that would have said that health care is “a human right.” Mr. Obama insisted that it’s instead a privilege, access to which must be based primarily upon an individual’s ability-to-pay, as is the case in the United States.
SchwartzReport: DNA of Poor Deteriorating — PBI: Is This Mass Genocide Against the Poor?
01 Poverty, 03 Environmental Degradation, 06 Genocide, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, GovernmentSome days, when I do SR by the time I am through I just feel that with the level of stupidity and greed that pervades our culture we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't. This is one of those stories.
Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA Of The Urban Poor
JZ Liszkiewicz : YouTube Panel on Extinction
Earth Intelligence
This is a very interesting panel on extinction past and future. They give overviews ranging from neanderthal DNA sequencing, flood basalts from Siberia containing CFC's that killed off other species, to the future of education – https://youtu.be/BFcZG_QVsT8
Video & Further Comments Below the Fold
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SchwartzReport: Drought Impacts Trees & Food
03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth IntelligenceOne aspect of climate change that people are simply not fully comprehending is the massive changes in the natural environment that are going to come with it. This report about California is just one example of what I mean. The massive restructuring of natural systems is going to be very challenging to our civilization.
Drought kills 12 million trees in California's national forests
It isn't just trees. Climate change is going to disrupt the food system, which is going to disrupt us in significant ways. Once again I urge you to grow food and encourage and facilitate local food production. Communities that do that will have an easier time going through this inevitable transition. And that is the reality. This restructuring is going to happen, because climate change is already happening, as this report and the tree story make clear.
California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System
Jean Lievens: Rights to Water and Land — the Next Global Revolution?
Earth Intelligence
Rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle
The declaration on the rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle, was originally presented at the World Social Forum in Tunis.
To date, more than 200 million hectares of land have been grabbed globally by private firms, governments, elites and speculators, often with the support of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the G8 and other institutions and consortiums. The minority’s appropriation of our Commons leads to concentration, forced evictions and the oppression of peoples.
Also see:
- John Pilger's 2012 documentary, Utopia, on the struggle of Australia's aboriginals, and his original investigation in 1985, The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back.
- WhyPoverty.net's documentary, Land Rush, which focuses on the buying & leasing of African land in Mali by foreign governments (China & Saudi Arabia), and the farmers who fought back.
