Book Review: What we owe to Gifford Pinchot and John Muir.
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All posts tagged: climate change
‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up
Now we are adding earthworms to the list of invasive species. After climate change, the most discussed environmental issue is the so-called invasive species crisis. Invasive species biology rests on the mistaken belief that […]
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An Icy Superhighway Once Carried Glaciers from Namibia to Brazil
More proof that “Climate Change” is as old as the Earth.
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Can Cows Help Mitigate Climate Change? Yes, They Can!
Livestock and other so-called “invasive exotic” animals can replace missing wild animals’ beneficial effects on plants when they are managed to copy natural grazing patterns. These and other innovations of restoration agriculture practices are discussed […]
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In a Warming West, the Rio Grande Is Drying Up
Agency, university and other water ‘experts’ blame climate change for declining river flows. They ignore the primary influences on land and rivers: Irresponsible agricultural practices. It is a misuse of precious Southwestern desert water to […]
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The Case for a Carbon Tax on Beef
This article does a good job of summarizing the many environmental problems caused by Big Meat’s method of raising beef. However, the author mistakenly assumes that there is no other way to raise beef than […]
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The Great Nutrient Collapse
Food nutrition is changing. This article blames atmospheric carbon, ignoring genetic modification of plants combined with the effect of the agricultural poisons our food plants have been engineered to survive. For example, a bushel of corn weighs […]
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A Gloomy Forecast for Climate Change
Planned grazing of cattle is an inexpensive and effective tool for restoring damaged grasslands, thereby helping habitat and wildlife. It also helps to reduce – and possibly reverse – the atmospheric carbon accumulation discussed below.
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If We All Stopped Eating Beef, What Would Happen to the Land?
The indictment of cattle as environmental polluters is correct with respect to factory meat farms, but completely mistaken as to cattle raised the old fashioned way – on grasslands, grazing as in nature.
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Environmental Quality Is More Than Just the Climate
The United States has done a very good job of reducing carbon emissions and human pollutants from sewage and industrial chemicals. But, simultaneously we have unleashed a devastating new environmental problem that has no smell […]
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