There’s only so much vertebrate biomass to go around. If one vertebrate population increases, some others are going to decrease; it’s not rocket science. How much terrestrial vertebrate biomass is made of humans? And how much of it is made by the animals we domesticate for your food? The answer is surprising — and like […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last year. This year. A pair of NASA images, taken a year apart, show the profound impacts of California’s current drought, which Gov. Jerry Brown said yesterday poses a major threat to California’s environment and economy. A satellite image taken last Saturday shows virtually no snow cover in the Coast Range and Cascade Mountains, and […]
Punjabi folk drumming Farmers are getting whacked by climate change everywhere. For example, in Northern India and Pakistan, we’re looking at a wheat harvest that might be going down by 20 percent or more. That’s a lot of mouths to not feed. Punjabi folk drumming with winds Based on current climate-change models, wheat output in […]