Debate Decentralization v Privatization

Community Resilience: People decide what the system (community) goals are based on their values. " This suggests that people — and the ways they come to rough consensus — are necessarily at the center of community resilience building"

Human activity has: • Pushed extinction rates of animals and plants far above the long-term average. The Earth is on course to see 75% of species become extinct in the next few centuries if current trends continue. • Increased levels of climate-warming CO2 in the atmosphere at the fastest rate for 66m years, with fossil-fuel burning pushing levels from 280 parts per million before the industrial revolution to 400ppm and rising today. • Put so much plastic in our waterways and oceans that microplastic particles are now virtually ubiquitous, and plastics will likely leave identifiable fossil records for future generations to discover. • Doubled the nitrogen and phosphorous in our soils in the past century with fertiliser use. This is likely to be the largest impact on the nitrogen cycle in 2.5bn years. • Left a permanent layer of airborne particulates in sediment and glacial ice such as black carbon from fossil fuel burning.

From 2012 to 2019, Syria lost 20.4% of all tree cover (Pax, 2020), much of the loss occurring in the governorates of Lattakia and Idlib, which lost 10% and 27% of tree cover area respectively between 2011 and 2014 (or 89% of the total tree cover loss in Syria). Depletion of forest cover has been linked to a variety of different socio-economic factors related to the conflict, including frequent forest fires, illegal logging, agricultural expansion, charcoal production, and the weakness of state institutions in managing natural resources and environmental development.

environmental damage is not just an effect but also a driver of the conflict. Poor environmental conditions in Syria before the war have been identified as a primary factor contributing to the armed conflict,

• the mismanagement of natural resources and waste
• inadequate government response to mining pollution
• severity of the drought that occurred from 2006 to 2010, which damaged the agriculture sector (comprising 25% of GDP), increased unemployment, amplified food insecurity and triggered mass migration towards urban centres.
• Combined with a high population growth rate, water scarcity imposed a greater risk of political instability.

https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/the-environmental-impact-of-syrias-conflict-a-preliminary-survey-of-issues/#:~:text=Poor%20environmental%20conditions%20in%20Syria,from%202006%20to%202010%2C%20which

we cant rid society of all materials extracted from the earth

• Matter cycles continually through the web of life. • Most of the energy driving the ecological cycles flows from the sun. • Diversity assures resilience. • One species’ waste is another species’ food. • Life did not take over the planet by combat but by networking.

Understanding these facts requires first understanding the patterns and processes by which nature sustains life, including networks, nested systems, cycles, flows, development, and dynamic balance.

Poultry Tyson Arkansas- Clinton campaign corruption

HACCP low acid vegetables must be pressure canned to kill the disease causing bacteria.

Burger e-coli Jack in the Box Cattle feces is the main source of this bacteria. The industrialized food system is responsible for its proliferation.

e-coli can cuase kidney failure

Food inspection morph USDA inspection into self regulated HACCP system

• in 1990 USDA asked the FDA to legalize Irradiation for use on beef, veal , pork, and lamb "Irradiation was viewed by many in the industry as the ticket to reducing their liablity under the self regulatory regime of HACCP"

Taylor would undo a century of USDA meat inspection regulation by trading inspection for treatments.

Trust used monopoly practices to keep farmers from selling their cattle at a competitive price

The meat inspiection act of 1906 mandated inspection of each animal carcass and is the basis for regulation and safety for red meats and pork today