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“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by borderslynn

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in 1937 following catastrophic dust storms and flooding in the United States. He was right. Soil deserves respect. A medium for plant growth, a source of nutrients, a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, animals, carbon capture, climate change, fertilizer, food security, insects, land protection, life, organic, soil, survival | Leave a comment

Fruit and nut yields threatened by warmer winters

Posted on September 28, 2022 by borderslynn

As winters warm in some well know fruit growing regions of the world, crop yield can be severely reduced, even wiped out. See: https://climatechange.lta.org/winter-chill/ In the US state of Georgia, famous for its peaches, 85% of the 2018 crop was … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, colder regions, Farming, Fruit growing, fruit yield loss, global food supply, nut growing, nut yield loss, vineyard loss, warmer winters | Leave a comment

Wheat production impacted by warmer winters

Posted on September 26, 2022 by borderslynn

The United States Department of Agriculture has advised farmers that plant hardiness zones must shift 100 miles north. They expect this shift will become 300 miles by 2050. The areas which are left behind will become unable to grow wheat … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, declining wheat production, famine, global wheat growers, latitude between 30 and 60 degrees north, Russia, ukraine, warmer winters, wheat futures, Wheat origins | Leave a comment

Redirecting floodwater into aquifer

Posted on August 22, 2022 by borderslynn

For some years now the pattern of drought followed by flooding is experienced in many countries. Serious reduction in water levels in aquifers causes drinking water shortages. It is therefore necessary to build a system which directs flood waters into … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, aquifers, california, climate change, dams, drinking water, drought, Farming, food supply chains, hydrology, livestock, Mexico City, rivers, wildlife, world drought, world food | Leave a comment

Oil Plunder

Posted on July 27, 2022 by borderslynn

Virunga National Park, home, to the last mountain gorillas and people of the Congo, has been placed in a deal to auction off the precious territory to countries like the US and UK so they can drill for oil! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/25/world/congo-auction-land-oil-companies … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, APAC, carbon credits, climate change, Drilling, exploited congolese, fossil fuels, IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress, mountain gorillas, oil, protecting endangered species, protecting wilderness | Leave a comment

Agricultural solutions

Posted on July 1, 2022 by borderslynn

I have just watched a Euronews coverage of how enterprising solutions have enabled Algerian farmers to utilise the water table below the desert and renewable electricity to grow potatoes and other foods in specially cultivated areas. Watch at: https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/27/from-sand-to-spuds-how-algeria-galvanised-its-agricultural-sector This … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Algeria, aquifer, brazil, building resilience, california, climate change, decontaminating soil, desert, drought, favelas, food security, garden initiative, goats not pesticides, healthy food, nature based solutions, organic, poverty | Leave a comment

Cotton and Wool Blending

Posted on January 1, 2022 by borderslynn

Like much of our knowledge and language, the word ‘cotton’ comes from Arabic ‘quton’. As with wool and silk, so cotton is a natural fabric and is comfortable to the most sensitive skin. It is soft yet strong; is absorbent; … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged British colonialism, climate change, cotton blending, cotton industry, Covid, disease, ecology, GMO, India, organic cotton, overpopulation, poverty, textiles, Tuberculosis, wealth, wool and cotton | Leave a comment

Wool

Posted on December 27, 2021 by borderslynn

Killing a sheep and cutting off its skin to provide clothing is obviously a skill humans have been honing for thousands of years, since we skinned many animals to clothe us, and ate the meat, used the bones to create … Continue reading →

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The Battle Against Nature for Cotton

Posted on November 8, 2021 by borderslynn

Using modern techniques, it has been possible to identify the earliest cotton in a copper bead within a grave in Mehrgarh. It is thought the first cotton was grown and utilised by early farmers in this region of what is … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient civilisations, arial sea, big money, boll weevil, climate change, cotton crop, genetics, indus valley, Mehrgarh, molecular biology, neolithic era, Pakistan, parasitic wasp, pesticides, pests, phorid fly, profit before people, red ant, sustainability, toxic poisoning, water shortages | Leave a comment

C02 and Agricultural Practices

Posted on September 28, 2021 by borderslynn

Since Neolithic times, when humans became farmers, we have sought ways to change land use to fit our needs. We have terraced hillsides to grow food, we have developed irrigation and switched routes of rivers to benefit land where water … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ammonia plants, carbon capture, CF Industries, climate change, climate warming, CO2 in short supply, CO2 production, coal gasification, cop26, energy crisis worldwide, fuel shortage, green renewables to co2, national infrastructure protection, steam reforming | 2 Comments

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