I guess only the people at the London Times know.

disappearing forests and rivers drying up

the report said that many ecosystems around the world were so stressed that they could soon pass a tipping point

Britain, which imports 40 per cent of its food, including a fifth of its animal feed from South America, would struggle to feed itself unless it made expensive investments in its supply chains, the authors said.

Could these issues be related?

These investments could include lab-grown meat and new crop varieties.

Or… fruit trees?

“This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people,” a source close to the development of the report claimed. “We need to have an honest conversation about the risks we face to our prosperity and how to mitigate them.”

mitigation 101

I dunno. The world before was a bit too fucking cold. I wouldn’t complain if the climate settled at around 0.5°C or even 1°C warmer. More than that gets scary, but so do ice ages.

I can’t really disagree with you. It is possible, especially with community support. Rather than saying that not everyone can grow all of their own food, I should say that for the disabled poor living in urban environments in very cold or dry areas of the world, growing 100% of their own food would be much more difficult and/or require more innovative methods. Thank you for not backing down on this. We should never give up. Do you grow all of your own food now, or are you still in the process?

“ It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can,” I totally disagree, seeds from food, even cheapest, can be grown to plants for food. Do not even need adults to learn & do this, super easily, the children can do it.

When I say that not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, I mean that some people may be trapped by poverty or disability in an urban environment in an inhospitable (desert/tundra) climate where they have limited space for growing food and the growing season is too short to have year-round production. For non-impoverished able-bodied people, yes, growing and foraging all of one’s own food is perfectly feasible.

I was not focused on bring-up awesome alternatives like this, more awareness, too as many people as possible. I did not think there were so many people that already knew this, like it seems you do. I hope everyone gets how bad this is for efforts to save our Living Earth & All Living Beings on it! Thank you!

I’m glad that you appreciate what I wrote and what those projects are doing. :)

A Critical Look at UN IPCC’s Emissions Accounting

The Truth Behind the Numbers

Where the Truth Lies

Of course growing your own food or knowing the grower is the only way to ensure that something is vegan. Corporate- and carnist-controlled agricultural operations often use animals as fertiliser and eradicate wild animals not just on the farm itself but in the surrounding area as well as a pre-emptive measure. Everyone has a right to protect their food supply, but what you’re describing here seems like the active pre-emptive killing rather than a response to the non-humans’ actions.

It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can, then of course growing our own food forests using veganic methods is the most peaceful and practical option. Amazon Restore and Pacha Libre are promoting this, and there are probably other committed ethical vegan food forest projects in the world of which I’m not aware. Community and local food production in harmony with the forest and native animals… I imagine that such is the solarpunk way.

And let’s not forget the massive amount of deforestation for growing the feed crops that they use. It’s an ecological catastrophe at every level.

Alley cropping with Inga edulis or a similar leguminous tree for mulch would work very well as part of a syntropic approach to pure reforestation or food forests.

Going forward, there will be “some significant amount of consumers probably worried about the fact that they’re going to be complicit in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest,” said Hurowitz.

In the words of Philip Wollen, we don’t have to bomb it; we can just stop buying it. The animal cruelty industry drives the expansion of soya plantations in the Amazon. Live vegan and grow your own veganic permaculture food forest using syntropic agriculture methods.

In the words of Philip Wollen, we don’t have to bomb it; we can just stop buying it. The animal cruelty industry drives the expansion of soya plantations in the Amazon. Live vegan and grow your own veganic permaculture food forest using syntropic agriculture methods.

How Forests Improve and Stabilize the Health of an Ecosystem

How Trees Bring Water

syntropic agriculture

small-scale reforestation might help

small-scale reforestation might help

If you want to avoid supporting industrial agriculture’s land-grabbing violence and ecological destruction without sacrificing the nutritional and gustatory marvels of fruits such as these, then growing your own veganic permaculture food forest is the ideal solution.

“Dumbphones” are not inherently superior from a privacy perspective if they connect to cell towers. Standard calls and SMS are wide open to eavesdropping.

Fossil fuel pollution has heated the planet by an average of about 1.4C above preindustrial levels

Not exactly.

The article isn’t really clear about this, but carob is NOT suitable for the wet climates in which cacao is often grown. It would be planted in dry regions that are unsuitable for most other crops.

Cacao monocultures are destroying the rainforest, mainly in West Africa and in the Amazon, and people aren’t even eating the fruit. Even where I live, I’ve seen forest slashed and burnt for the production of this fungicide-intensive crop, and I’ve seen heaps of shells and pulp left to ferment while people process the seeds. If the cacao industry collapses due to climate change (caused partly by the same deforestation to which the industry contributes), then I say good riddance. Keep your stimulant habit out of my jungle…

In essence, Planet B is:

• A systems-based solution to the ecological crises, based on principles of veganism, sustainability, fairness, and reverence for all life.
• A metaphor for a regenerative future where humans live in harmony with Nature and all life.
• A call to spiritual, cultural, and lifestyle transformation, beginning with the immediate elimination of animal agriculture and rewilding of the planet.

This sounds a lot like what Amazon Restore and Pacha Libre are about.