Tag Archives: Farming

What we know about industrial growth – and it isn’t good.

Posted on February 20, 2023 by borderslynn

Zach Wichter wrote an article in the New York Times (June 20, 2017) entitled “Too Hot to Fly? Climate Change May Take a Toll on Flying.” He pointed out that when temperatures get too high, the aerodynamic that allow planes … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic Ice, Arctic Ice retreating, catastrophe, consequences, Farming, flight cancellations, flights grounded, food insecurity, fossil fuel use increase, growth priority, heat stricken airports, high temperatures, permafrost melt, plane aerodynamics, suffering planet | Leave a comment

Concept of borders

Posted on November 10, 2022 by borderslynn

Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Concept of borders, conflict, Farming, food production, human behaviour, land use, migration, nomadic life, self identity, sustainability, territory | 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

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

Will we be Fishless?: VI

Posted on March 7, 2021 by borderslynn

How Fish are Exposed to Pesticides Fish and aquatic animals are exposed to pesticides in three primary ways (1) dermally, direct absorption through the skin by swimming in pesticide-contaminated waters, (2) breathing, by direct uptake of pesticides through the gills … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged benthos, environment, Farming, glyphosate, health, pesticides, rivers, soil | Leave a comment

Cowed by climate change

Posted on January 2, 2019 by borderslynn

Image of map of Peru In March 2017, Reuters reported ‘Abnormal El Nino in Peru unleashes deadly downpours; more flooding seen’ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-floods-idUSKBN16O2V5 In the article it also says,”While precipitation in Peru has not exceeded the powerful El Nino of 1998, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged chavin, climate, el niño, Farming, flood plains, floods, genocide, melting glaciers, Peru, poverty, preventable deaths, rising sea levels | Leave a comment

Teotihuacan in Mexico compared to Rome, Italy: Part One

Posted on October 14, 2018 by borderslynn

Setting the scene Thousands of years ago, as the ice sheets melted and humans began their migrations and explorations of this Earth, let us try to imagine, without modern transport and comforts, how tribes of people could travel from Africa … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged architecture, aridity, building materials, civilisation, Farming, irrigation, italy, Mexico, rain shadow, Romans, teotihuacan, trade, water shortages | 1 Comment

The tribes who evolved out of Africa to eventually become pre-Roman settlers

Posted on September 3, 2018 by borderslynn

Influencers of pre Roman tribes were The Scythians – the Greeks’ name for this initially nomadic people. They inhabited Scythia from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. This included Kazakhstan, thought to be the location … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient tribes, Apennines, chariot, domestication of horses, Eurasia, Farming, italy, kurgan, metallurgy, pre-Rome, warrior nomads | Leave a comment

Flooding in the Americas: Neolithic farming

Posted on December 3, 2017 by borderslynn

Starting about 12,900 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was abruptly gripped by centuries of cold, as mentioned in previous blogs, the Younger Dryas. Scientists have suggested this chill helped wipe out most of the large mammals in North America as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, cahokia, corn, Farming, flood plains, flood protection, maize, mesoamerica, mississippi, staple diet, UNESCO | Leave a comment

Destruction of the Garden

Posted on August 14, 2017 by borderslynn

Humans thrive when nature provides them with fertile land where they feel safe and can develop skills. This was such a place, between less abundant and often hostile lands, it was a place humans would target and fight to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arable land, bronze age, dam technology, ecology, Farming, fertile crescent, habitat, irrigation, pre neolithic, water, wildlife | 2 Comments

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