INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, AGROECOLOGY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Fritjof Capra

Contrasting practices that exacerbate climate disruption with those that build resilience and support health.

Today it is becoming more and more evident that the major problems of our time — energy, the environment, climate change, food security, financial security — cannot be understood in isolation. 

They are systemic problems, which means that they are all interconnected and interdependent, and they require corresponding...

The Guardian, 19/06/2015
Pope Francis has called on the world’s rich nations to begin paying their “grave social debt” to the poor and take concrete steps on climate change, saying failure to do so presents an undeniable risk to a “common home” that is beginning to resemble a “pile of filth”.

The pope’s 180-page encyclical on the environment, released on Thursday, is at its core a moral call for action on phasing out the use of fossil fuels.

But it is also a document infused with...

Nine leading climate scientists urge you to attend the People’s Climate March.

By JEREMY JACKSON and AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSONSEPT. 18, 2014
The New York Times

PARROTFISH eat algae and seaweed. These brightly colored fish with beaklike mouths inhabit coral reefs, the wellsprings of ocean life. Without them and other herbivores, algae and seaweed would overgrow the reefs, suppress coral growth and threaten the incredible array of life that depends on these reefs for shelter and food.

This was happening in Bermuda, until the government in 1990 banned fish traps that were decim...