climate migrants, according to Lustgarten, might cross paths because some are escaping from floods, some from fires, some from extreme heat or water shortage. If the number of migrants is twice as many as migrated in the Great Migration, the consequences are going to be immense, though hard to foresee. Least economically privileged will be impacted the most. Lots of attention on Lustgarten's part to the insurance industry. State laws (like Florida's) can make up for what the insurance industry can't afford to pay out, in order to preserve growth, but that can only last so long. Unlike other countries, the population movement in the U.S. is still going toward the danger spots rather than away from them.
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- Sep 2020
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art-bin.com art-bin.com
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you gave me your word of honor you would not,"
did sister give stella-rondo her word of honor? if so it's left out of the story.
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as good as he can
she just said it was "terrible looking."
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Naturally, it's so suffocating-hot in the house, with all the windows shut and locked
a dig
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prodigal daughter. stella-rondo says I'm one sided.
stella rondo says sister thinks he (papa daddy) should cut off his beard? Is that true?
Is shirley t. adopted?
smallness of her claims--it's the second smallest p.o.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Yes, sun food costs more, but the reasons why it does only undercut the charge of elitism: cheap food is only cheap because of government handouts and regulatory indulgence (both of which we will end), not to mention the exploitation of workers, animals and the environment on which its putative “economies” depend. Cheap food is food dishonestly priced it is in fact unconscionably expensive.
A nice formulation of what he's said before.
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You should support hunting
Support hunting.
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But it is not only our children who stand to benefit from public education about food.
Children's education about food. School lunches.
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eforming the food system is not inherently a right-or-left issue: for every Whole Foods shopper with roots in the counterculture you can find a family of evangelicals intent on taking control
conservatism again
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Definition of “Food.”
Food defined.
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A decentralized food system offers a great many other benefits as well.
decentralized for safety.
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- Aug 2020
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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he simplest and most honest answer is that we don’t know,
The simplest answer is that we don't know if it can be used to feed the world. (Organics and non fossil-fuel raised agriculture.)
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CAFOs to treat their waste
CAFOs wouldn't be economically feasible without some key given provisions, like the use of antibiotics and the lack of regulation on waste products.
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If Midwestern farmers simply planted a cover crop after the fall harvest, they would significantly reduce their need for fertilizer, while cutting down on soil erosion. Why don’t farmers do this routinely?
cover crops
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a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the feedlot. The former problem is remedied with fossil-fuel fertilizer; the latter is remedied not at all
CAFOs. The relationship of crops to animals used to make sense, but it doesn't anymore.
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it drove down the price of all the calories derived from that grain: the high-fructose corn syrup in the Coke, the soy oil in which the potatoes were fried, the meat and cheese in the burger
Lower prices aren't a blessing. They drive down the price of junk food. Later in the essay, Pollan more explicitly says that food should be more expensive.
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Before the application of oil and natural gas to agriculture, farmers relied on crop diversity
Cover crops and crop diversity used to be the rule.
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wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contempora
Italics signify the thesis.
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catastrophe that is the modern American diet
"the catastrophe ..."
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1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food
Each calorie eaten requires a great number of calories to produce. (fossil fuels)
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- Jul 2020
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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population that needs to get sick is not fixed.
Test note. (I'm going to need to take all of these notes and save them together in one bundle.)
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