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The mass development of genetically modified crops risks causing the world’s worst environmental disaster, The Prince of Wales has warned. Â Listen: The Prince of Wales speaks out In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone “seriously Continue Reading →
From The Land
The Federal Government’s Murray-Darling Basin water buyback scheme is heading for a squall in Queensland.
Conservation groups and downstream water users are welcoming the Federal push to buy $350 million of water out of the upper end of the Murray-Darling system, but in shires like Balonne, which has developed an economy deeply reliant on irrigation, the prospect of losing water is catastrophic.
Queensland Nationals Senator, Barnaby Joyce, is based at St George.
“If there’s a wholesale water buyback without any socio-economic impact studies done, it has the potential to deliver certain towns already hit by drought into poverty for perpetuity,†Mr Joyce said.
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Britain’s honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation’s beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables.
The survey by the British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) revealed that nearly one in three of the UK’s 240,000 honeybee hives did not survive this winter and spring.
The losses are higher than the one in five colonies reported dead earlier this year by the government after 10% of hives had been inspected.
By O.Glenn Smith in the New York Times
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AS we face $4.50 a gallon gas, we also know that alternative energy sources — coal, oil shale, ethanol, wind and ground-based solar — are either of limited potential, very expensive, require huge energy storage systems or harm the environment. There is, however, one potential future energy source that is environmentally friendly, has essentially unlimited potential and can be cost competitive with any renewable source: space solar power.
Science fiction? Actually, no — the technology already exists. A space solar power system would involve building large solar energy collectors in orbit around the Earth. These panels would collect far more energy than land-based units, which are hampered by weather, low angles of the sun in northern climes and, of course, the darkness of night.
US oil policy is responsible for Georgian situation by Muhammad Sahimi from Antiwar.com Much has been written about the war between Russia and Georgia. Neoconservatives, as Justin Raimondo pointed out, have suddenly discovered the “democratic” republic of Georgia, which has been a historical “victim” of the Russian “empire.” Never mind that not only was Georgia Continue Reading →
The environmental agenda, as we know, has been largely taken up by the Malthusian problematic. The environmental issue is often formulated in quantitative terms: scarcity of natural resources, excessive population, shortage of space for dump sites. It is true that the concept that growth of food production would not keep pace with population increase, which characterized Malthus’ own initial formulation, has not been empirically confirmed by history. Particularly, since the 1960s, world food production has systematically grown above demographic rates. Moreover, high levels of inequalities in food consumption both between different nations (wealthy and poor) and within countries themselves continue to prevail. Therefore, a distributive problem exists – unequal access to income and food resources.Â