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From Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency site: "44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers and their network of political groups, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney."
Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line
Can Time Inc. Survive the Kochs? November 28, 2017 By Jane Mayer
..."This year, among the Kochs’ aims is to spend a projected four hundred million dollars in contributions from themselves and a small group of allied conservative donors they have assembled, to insure Republican victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Ordinarily, political reporters for Time magazine would chronicle this blatant attempt by the Kochs and their allies to buy political influence in the coming election cycle. Will they feel as free to do so now?"...
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.
Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."
Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the Women's March on Washington
The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version
Local Futures offers a free 19-minute abridged version of its award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness. It "brings us voices of hope of in a time of crisis." www.localfutures.org.
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February 27, 2014
Organic Agriculture: 'The Way Forward' in the Age of Climate Change
Andrea Germanos, staff writer for commondreams.org, presents a new study on agriculture and climate change, published on Thursday, February 27, 2014 by Common Dreams
Organic Agriculture: 'The Way Forward' in the Age of Climate Change
"Cling to a food system that contributes to climate change and jeopardizes food security, or adopt a regenerative system that strengthens food security and helps mitigate the climate crisis—"The choice is ours to make," a new report states.
From the Center for Food Safety's Cool Foods Campaign, Food & Climate: Connecting the Dots, Choosing the Way Forward contrasts the dominant, fossil-fuel dependent industrial agriculture system with organic and agroecological systems, and shows how the environmentally-friendly approach is also the best hope for future global food security as it not only reins in runaway carbon emissions but offers climate resilience as well.
The concept of resilience is key, report author and Cool Foods Campaign director Diana Donlon explained in an interview with Common Dreams.
"It's a very important word in terms of climate change," Donlon said. "The definition we use is the capacity of a system to absorb a disturbance and then respond to that disturbance." The response of a resilient system is "vigorous and strong."
"Obviously, the food system is very vulnerable to climate change, and we want to design a system to make sure it is strong and resilient in the face of climate disruption," she said.
The report explains how the industrial agriculture system contributes to greenhouse gases, as methane spewing from factory feed lots and gas is guzzled through transportation and processing. In aggregate, the report states, industrial agriculture is responsible for around 50 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Part of organic agriculture's climate resilience, Donlon explained, is in the soil, which contrasts with the industrial system's by being a carbon sink and also helps mitigate periods of deluge and drought, which are set to increase with ongoing climate change."...
For more information and to download the report in PDF format:
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/2947/food-and-climate-connecting-the-dots-choosing-the-way-forward