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admin /15 March, 2009
The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, will today unveil a plan to make his country carbon-neutral within a decade. The announcement comes only days after scientists issued stark new warnings that rising seas caused by climate change could engulf the Maldives and other low-lying nations this century. Member of Team Generator and sustainable systems designer, Wayne Wadsworth is involved in the project. “It may be too little too late,” he said. “It is a bit like the canary in the coal mine attempting to stop a rockfall.” The president will formally announce the scheme – and make a plea for other countries to follow the Maldives’ lead – this evening, following the world premiere of The Age of Stupid, a major new climate change film.
admin /15 March, 2009
The number of marine dead zones have doubled every decade since the 1960s and show no sign of abating, warn scientists writing in the journal Science.
Dead zones have expanded across the ocean at alarming rates. Currently 415 sites—usually along coastlines—have shown signs of seasonal to persistent hypoxia—a severe lack of oxygen. In a review, researchers Robert Diaz and Rutger Rosenberg argue that marine dead zones have “become a major worldwide environmental problem”, occupying a portion of the ocean equal to that of the United Kingdom. Growth continues to accelerate.
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admin /15 March, 2009
The world’s oceans could be devoid of seafood in forty years, a study revealed last week. The combined effects of pollution, overfishing, sharkfinning, acidification and draining of the world’s wet lands is placing stresses on marine systems that will cause their rapid and total collapse, according to Dr Boris Worm, quoted in Natural News. The University of Virginia last week revealed a study of the marine deadzones which shows they doubled in number every decade and now cover more than 96,000square kilometers. The report described the deadzones as a result in oxygen depletion caused by algal blooms from fertilizer run-off.
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admin /15 March, 2009
A major pharmaceutical company has delivered thousands of flue shots containing the live avian flu virus, it was revealed last week. The influenza vaccine produced by Baxter International Inc was contaminated with live H5N1 avian influenza virus. The possibility of a major outbreak of the fatal disease has shocked the medical world and caused panic in the European nations where the vaccine was distributed and administered. The newsletter of the Australian Vaccination Network highlights Baxter’s international contracts to develop an Avian influenza vaccine as a possible motive for spreading the virus deliberately.
admin /11 March, 2009
What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who only sell only fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory “safety” records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation.
I’ve bought food at several farmers markets for years and I have yet to meet any vendors who are fond of the government. I think it’s pretty safe to say that most vendors at farmers markets won’t go along with this. The problem will be that the people who run the farmers markets will be forced to make sure that vendors are “registered” with the government.
admin /11 March, 2009
A set of three bills before the Congress of the United States will effectively outlaw organic farms, farmers markets and small, local food producers according to critics. The bills aim to establish a Food Safety Administration with the power to inspect and close down all food production and retailing businesses and to dictate what fertilizers and pesticides will be used on farms any where in the world growing food for consumption in the United States. The new US Secretary for Agriculture Tom Vilsak has announced that he supports the bills. Before being appointed by President Barak Obama, Vilsack passed a number of bills as governor of Iowa supporting biofuels, genetically grown crops and cloning of animals. Farmers in Iowa opposed many of his initiatives which effectively outlawed the on farm collection and storage of seed.
Read an account of India’s campaign against agribusiness laws
