#monoculture — Public Fediverse posts

https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.

'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'

https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
#agriculture #monoculture #BigAg #industrialAgriculture #ecocide #privatisation

'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'

https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
#agriculture #monoculture #BigAg #industrialAgriculture #ecocide #privatisation

'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'

https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
#agriculture #monoculture #BigAg #industrialAgriculture #ecocide #privatisation

'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'

https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
#agriculture #monoculture #BigAg #industrialAgriculture #ecocide #privatisation

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V6pgZKVcKpw

If you only watch one video on cyber security this year, make it this one

#infosec #informationsecurity #security #computersecurity #internetsecurity #vulnerability #bugs #bugbounty #cybersecurity #monoculture #cyber

Coventry! Potters Green 1st April

£ donations on the door

Irwin's Sandwich Bar
23 Ringwood Highway
Potters Green
Coventry CV2 2GG

6:15pm food
7.15pm film
Q&A after

Come to Coventry to this local cafe which is showing Fires and Fascism tonight! See how people are fighting back to create change.

In the film you'll see how locals in Portugal uprooted the highly flammable eucalyptus plantations, among other direct resistance actions to big business, capitalism, and the far right. The monocultures were replaced with trees much more suitable for the region.

Speaking of trees: in the local area, the work by the "Tree Amigos" and the Tree Sanctuary shows amazing community spirit! Come down to talk about what else is going on, and how any fears around the far right can be countered by community action and organisation.

#trees #treeSanctuary #monoculture #treePlanting #community #Coventry #Midlands #documentary

Coventry! Potters Green 1st April

£ donations on the door

Irwin's Sandwich Bar
23 Ringwood Highway
Potters Green
Coventry CV2 2GG

6:15pm food
7.15pm film
Q&A after

Come to Coventry to this local cafe which is showing Fires and Fascism tonight! See how people are fighting back to create change.

In the film you'll see how locals in Portugal uprooted the highly flammable eucalyptus plantations, among other direct resistance actions to big business, capitalism, and the far right. The monocultures were replaced with trees much more suitable for the region.

Speaking of trees: in the local area, the work by the "Tree Amigos" and the Tree Sanctuary shows amazing community spirit! Come down to talk about what else is going on, and how any fears around the far right can be countered by community action and organisation.

#trees #treeSanctuary #monoculture #treePlanting #community #Coventry #Midlands #documentary

@LiamOMaraIV

👍
#Irish #History
You might want 2 add the #PotatoeFamine hashtag.

Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.

The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in 🇲🇽 and spread from the 🇺🇸 2 🇮🇪.

https://www.sheetofhistory.com/2025/12/the-great-irish-famine-how-potato.html

#AgroIndustrie #monoculture #surproduction
[Pardon, mais 😂]

Trop de choux-fleurs et pas de clients, les légumiers de France rencontrent une crise « catastrophique »

Les producteurs de poireaux, de potimarrons ou de carottes subissent depuis plusieurs mois les conséquences d’une météo tempétueuse et de températures printanières en plein hiver. Certains agriculteurs croulent sur des légumes en surnombre, quand des fruiticulteurs craignent de devoir arracher leurs arbres.

https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/environnement/article/trop-de-choux-fleurs-et-pas-de-clients-les-legumiers-de-france-rencontrent-une-crise-catastrophique_261344.html

The NT: In them old cotton fields back home

"Incoming Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly has apologised over his trove of divisive past social media posts, a day before he is formally sworn-in."

"Mr Connolly's past commentary has been labelled variously as sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic and bigoted by various groups including the Northern Land Council (NLC), the Country Women's Association NT and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the NT (APONT)." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/david-connolly-apologises-over-social-media-controversy/106389356

King Charles’s official representative in the Northern Territory >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116135022082276542

#NT #Australia #cotton #monoculture #plantations #sexism #racism #homophobia #transphobia #sorry #DevelopingNation

Image: The 'wide open spaces' of the NT populated with cotton. As far as the eye can see a "third-world crop" or a critical commodity for developing nations.

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories

When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.

“Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities
#forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature

The fig leaves have been dropped

"The US Department of Homeland Security used the image with the heading "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending" in a post on social media in August 2025."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

Origins of Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist Terms and Symbols
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/origins-of-neo-nazi-and-white-supremacist-terms-and-symbols

Image: John Gast, American Progress, The "Spirit of the Frontier" 1872
#ManifestDestiny #SettlerSociety #expansion #empire #progress #BloodAndSoil #WhiteSupremacists #EthnoNationalism #monoculture #FirstNationsPeoples #biodiversity

The Rise and Fall of the American #Monoculture

The American monoculture -- the era when three #television networks, seven #movie studios, and a handful of record labels determined virtually everything the country watched and heard -- is collapsing under the weight of #algorithmic #recommendation engines and infinite #streaming options.
#algorithm

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/1946207/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-monoculture?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

New #blog post: Monocultures Considered Harmful or: Why Linux Nerds Should Give BSD and Other "Weird" OSes a Try

https://rldane.space/monocultures-considered-harmful-or-why-linux-nerds-should-give-bsd-and-other-weird-oses-a-try.html

545 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EdsgerDijkstra #Dijkstra #monoculture #monocultures #ConsideredHarmful

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

https://drilled.media/news/ethanol-story1

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations…

#Brazil #ClimateFund #Diverted #BigAg #Ethanol #EnvironmentalViolators #COP30 #AgTrap #BNDES #Deforestation #IncreasedGHGs #IncreasedPesticides #GMO #Monoculture #USfinancing #IllegalLogging

"Members of the National Socialist Network, a group of neo-Nazis who promote deporting 'non-white' Australians, said they intended to register a political party, after about 60 members rallied outside NSW Parliament on Saturday." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/no-scope-to-block-neo-nazis-registering-a-political-party-aus/106000692
#WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #Australia #FarRight #SettlerSociety #monoculture

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

"Questions are being asked about why NSW Police did not oppose a neo-Nazi rally outside Parliament House. About 60 people, dressed in black, stood outside parliament on Saturday morning..."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/neo-nazi-protest-nsw-parliament-house-police/105989586

“At its core, the National Socialist Network is anti-immigrant, anti-Indigenous, anti-gay, anti-Jew, anti-Islam and anti-anything that does not fit its white anglo-centric worldview. Its version of social cohesion is monochrome and monocultural."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/08/nsw-police-powers-sydney-neo-nazi-rally-premier-chris-minnssays
#FarRight #NSW #EthnoNationalism #monoculture #Australia

If you, like me, think our monoculture agriculture is skrewed and are losing hope for the future, well, take a look. It's a really good video about #permaculture and #agroforestry. I loved it!

What is Agroforestry? – The Future of Farming
https://youtu.be/njsC4kKFO3s

#solarpunk #agriculture #plantingTrees #monoculture

If you, like me, think our monoculture agriculture is skrewed and are losing hope for the future, well, take a look. It's a really good video about #permaculture and #agroforestry. I loved it!

What is Agroforestry? – The Future of Farming
https://youtu.be/njsC4kKFO3s

#solarpunk #agriculture #plantingTrees #monoculture

If you, like me, think our monoculture agriculture is skrewed and are losing hope for the future, well, take a look. It's a really good video about #permaculture and #agroforestry. I loved it!

What is Agroforestry? – The Future of Farming
https://youtu.be/njsC4kKFO3s

#solarpunk #agriculture #plantingTrees #monoculture

If you, like me, think our monoculture agriculture is skrewed and are losing hope for the future, well, take a look. It's a really good video about #permaculture and #agroforestry. I loved it!

What is Agroforestry? – The Future of Farming
https://youtu.be/njsC4kKFO3s

#solarpunk #agriculture #plantingTrees #monoculture

If you, like me, think our monoculture agriculture is skrewed and are losing hope for the future, well, take a look. It's a really good video about #permaculture and #agroforestry. I loved it!

What is Agroforestry? – The Future of Farming
https://youtu.be/njsC4kKFO3s

#solarpunk #agriculture #plantingTrees #monoculture

Biodiversity of meadows degraded by fossil fuel machinery and fertilisers

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/09/switzerland-botany-biodiversity-grassland-agriculture-alpine-meadows-study-aoe

Technology assessment could be defined as "a form of policy research that examines short- and long term consequences (for example, societal, economic, ethical, legal) of the application of technology."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_assessment
#biodiversity #meadows #progress #monoculture #industrialised #agriculture #farming #grazing #machines #chemicals #technology #TA

Pesticide spray drift from intensive horticulture on the the mid-north coast NSW -
Discontent in the region.

Home owners, dairy and beef producers among those concerned about how pesticide use affects their land as well as water quality on the mid-north coast

“Between 2001 and 2016 blueberry farming expanded 400% – mainly around the Coffs Harbour region.”

“This monitoring showed the continued detection of pesticides in most waterways sampled, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring in the region.”

“Monitoring in the Nambucca valley by the EPA has detected three different pesticides in low levels in three creeks, suggesting water quality in the area is not being impacted by excessive amounts of pesticides.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/09/blueberry-farms-nsw-north-coast-rapid-expansion-development-pesticides
#Pesticides #food #beef #diary #prawns #blueberries #plantations #monoculture #rivers #water #export #runoff #pollution #neonicotinoids #imidacloprid #dimethoate #SprayDrift #CoffsHarbour #Macksville #Nambucca #Woolgoolga #conflict #violence #EPA #regulation #horticulture #industry #tourism #PeoplesHomes #TankWater #governance #MidNorthCoast #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #extractivism

Forests and the probability of high-severity fires

"We found that dense, spatially homogeneous forests with high ladder fuels were more likely to burn at high severity. Extreme weather magnified the effect of density, suggesting that treatments which remove overstory trees are especially important in extreme conditions. Forests managed by private industry were more likely to be dense, spatially homogeneous, and contain high ladder fuel loads than publicly owned forests, offering a potential explanation for the increase in high-severity fire occurrence on private industrial land. Overall, these results illustrate the need for comprehensive forest management to mitigate fire severity in a warmer future."

"Here we discovered that the characteristics of private industrial forestland are strongly correlated with increases in the probability of high-severity fire, potentially explaining the higher incidence of high severity fire in these forests ."
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70400
The study, “Extreme weather magnifies the effects of forest structure on wildfire, driving increased severity in industrial forests,” was published on Aug. 20, 2025, in the journal Global Change Biology. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70400
#bushfires #forests #plantations #fires #LoggingImpacts #monoculture #NSWLogging #Climate #biodiversity

Humans profoundly reshaped mammal communities on a global scale.

"After farming began, just a handful of livestock species spread with humans and scrambled those natural boundaries, reshaping mammal communities worldwide...Large ungulates like horses and cows are important because they monopolize food resources wherever they are in high numbers...At the same time, many wild mammals went extinct, in each case following human arrival—not during a particular worldwide climate change episode."

"Post-extinction ecosystems have not been truly natural for the last 10,000 years or more, so national parks in the hardest-hit regions, such as Australia and the Americas, lack over half of the native large mammal species that would have been present if not for humans. Over the last 10,000 years or so, humans have overseen the wholesale replacement of native mammal communities with a very limited set of domesticated species."
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How humans reshaped the animal world: Research traces 50,000 years of change
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-humans-reshaped-animal-world-years.html

"These findings underscore how human-driven extinctions, agriculture and resource extraction profoundly reshaped mammal community structures. How we manage these interactions today will determine whether mammal communities become resilient or increasingly destabilized."
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Barry W. Brook et al, Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts, Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
#ecosystems #biosphere #biodiversity #wildlife #nativespecies #mammals #holocene #extinctions #disruption #fauna #NovelAssemblages #NPs #nature #ungulates #livestock #HumanDriven #NicheModification #monoculture #Australia #extractivism