Tag: monocropping

Six Gallons Over The Line?

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Well, well. Another argument in favor of individual control over the means of production. In Northern California, where marijuana production is a major playa in the regional economy, the growers’ demands for water are now impacting salmon populations. Although new conservation efforts have helped populations to rebound—30,000 salmon and steelhead swam up the Eel to […]

The Farmer Was The One Who Fed Us All

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Not that this is really a surprise to anyone, but there are more studies coming out which confirm and strengthen the prediction of massive impacts on food — production, availability, cost — as a consequence of climate change. The world’s agricultural industry doesn’t have the technological capacity or the imaginative flexibility to prepare for the […]