Agriculture’s Greatest Myth: There Isn’t an Impending Food Crisis Most global food models either underestimate global food supply or overestimate demand and thus tend to predict a crisis even when there isn t one.
This article originally appeared in Independent Science News. Jonathan Latham
April 26, 2021
Sustainable, local, organic food grown on small farms has a tremendous amount to offer. Unlike chemical-intensive industrial-scale agriculture, it regenerates rural communities; it doesn’t pollute rivers and groundwater or create dead zones; it can save coral reefs; it doesn’t encroach on rainforests; it preserves soil and it can restore the climate. Why do all governments not promote it?
NZ s potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: We re not learning
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Experts including a former chief science advisor say New Zealand s risk-management systems are flawed and we can no longer rely on our she ll be right mantra. By Donna Chisholm. The email giving New Zealand 24 hours warning of a potentially catastrophic solar flare landed in chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman s inbox in late July 2012. It was an alert from his UK counterpart, Sir John Beddington, advising of a severe space weather event known as a mass coronal ejection. A huge amount of matter had been released from the sun that, if directed at the Earth, would cause a geomagnetic storm with the potential to destroy critical infrastructure including satellites, GPS systems and electricity grids.
The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo.
God isn t a gorilla. God even isn t.
Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs. Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats. unless they were wiped out by disease or other accidental events.
And in the paradigm of evolution, the hominid ancestor the precursor of the apes would have given ape-lines characteristics to gorillas (as gorillas), and to sapiens in various formats, as non-cross-breedable cousins. As mentioned before I believe Homo sapiens (meaning wise ) sapiens (twice wise) us, humans was (and is) a weak species that had to become more astutely cunning to survive. (In my humble opinion our second sapiens should actually be tellin
Electric car targets at risk as UK falls behind in global race for key battery metals, experts warn
UK lacks cohesive strategy and faces being at the back of the list as US and Japan forge ahead with trade deals
1 April 2021 • 6:00am
Employees working in the workshop of a lithium battery manufacturing company in Huaibei, eastern China s Anhui province. China dominates the market for the key metals needed to produce electric cars.
Credit: STR/AFP
Electric car targets are at risk of being missed because Britain is being left behind in the global race to buy components for batteries, a report has found.
Thursday, 01 April 2021 The UK must act now to ensure a stable supply of technology-critical metals (TCMs) essential for its transition to clean energy and the delivery of its ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, according to a new Policy Commission report produced by the University of Birmingham. Lithium
Technology-critical metals such as rare earths, lithium and cobalt are essential for emerging clean-energy technologies including electric vehicle batteries, and permanent magnets used in efficient motors and generators. Demand for these materials is expected to grow exponentially over the next 20 years as a result of the global race towards next generation clean-energy technologies.