Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet A version of something I wrote on email struck a chord with some folks regarding the assertion "GMOs are safe": The term "safe" should be bifurcated into "safe for human health" and "safe for the general environment".
See the original article here: Brave New World: Aldous Huxley and Eco Modernism
Mal Adapted said… I suppose I’ll acknowledge that not everything 8c says is ranty, strictly speaking (although I’d like to know how to work that click-and-ignore trick). As an atheist I have no personal use for the Pope’s theology either
Tweet The coming June 18th publication of Laudato Si will reaffirm our moral responsibility for the Earth.
Tweet ScienceDaily says a paper found that climate change has less impacts on biodiversity than land use has. My first thoughts were that it’s plausible, that the negative effects are combined, and that the priority might depend on the assumptions. I tried to RTFA , but it was paywalled other than a long abstract
Now that we have the backdrop out of the way, please consider Twinkie’s Miracle Comeback: The Untold, Inside Story of a $2 Billion Feast Walk in the door of Hostess Brands’ flagship bakery in Emporia, Kansas and your first thought is: What a dump.
Continue Reading: Business Activity Contracts in Japan, Modest Expansion in China; PBOC Rate Cut Seen
Tweet Some people make a qualitative distinction between divesting from coal businesses versus divesting from oil. I’ll concede at the start that coal is the worst, so if you choose to only divest from one sector then it should be coal.