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Doom and gloom is everywhere. We now see what happens when the productive capacity of a nation is propelled by ever widening wheels of debt, tied not to strength of assets but to derivatives of debt.
Now comes the question, what to do. First, be realistic. Second, be bold.
Delores Amason's family has been farming for generations. Her father, Leroy E. Harvey, was a sharecropper who bought 40 acres of farmland in Tillery, North Carolina, through a New Deal program that offered loans to help small farmers own the land they worked. For decades, the family grew cotton, peanuts, corn and soybeans, and bought more acres as they could.
"We weren't rich by anybody's standards," Amason says, "but it didn't bother us because we worked for ourselves."
Throughout 2002 and 2003, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency were conducting regular meetings and email correspondence with representatives of Syngenta, the primary manufacturer of a pesticide called atrazine, at a time when the EPA was supposed to be evaluating atrazine, according to documents obtained by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Not even the garbage is immune. A facility that championed environmentalism before the rest of the world caught up, the Garbage Museum on Honeyspot Road Extension in Stratford has been a somewhat off-the-wall local attraction since the 1990s. But with funding running out, the fun may be over.
1. Is ecological agriculture productive?
2. Small farms as a planetary ecological asset
QUOTE: "The poor and hungry need low-cost, readily available technologies and practices to increase food production." - editorial in New Scientist
Doctors fear a new wave of the human form of "mad cow disease" is about to hit Britain, BBC Newsnight has learned.
In the UK, 164 people have died of variant CJD, which originally came from cows infected with BSE, and all cases shared a version of a certain gene.
But Newsnight has been told of a new case in a separate genetic group.
The government's chief adviser on vCJD, Professor Chris Higgins, said estimates were that up to 350 people could become affected by this new type.
The Mumbai attacks have been dubbed 'India's 9/11', and there are calls for a 9/11-style response, including an attack on Pakistan. Instead, the country must fight terrorism with justice, or face civil war
TULSA, Okla.-Dangers to human health are "still very real" in the Illinois River watershed because 13 Arkansas-based poultry companies continue to dispose of the bird waste in the river valley, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.
But a poultry industry spokeswoman says bacteria levels in the 1 million-acre watershed are no greater than they are in the state's other rivers and streams where poultry waste isn't applied.
Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who's to blame. It's crucial to get the history right, writes a Nobel-laureate economist, identifying five key mistakes-under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II-and one national delusion.
