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Category Archives: BioInvasion
Livestock threatened by toxic invasive species on rangeland
Preface. Will cattle, sheep,goats, and horses have to be raised on feed lots in the future to prevent range land poisoning from invasive plants? Each year poisonous plants adversely affect 3-5% of the cattle, sheep, and horses that graze western … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity Loss, BioInvasion, Peak Food
Tagged biodiversity loss, Bioinvasion, invasive species, plants
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Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues
Preface. I’ve noticed that in the half dozen science magazines and several newspapers I get practically the only environmental stories are about climate change. Yet there are 8 other ecological boundaries (Rockström 2009) we must not cross (shown in bold … Continue reading
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Preface. There are three articles below on this topic. Climate change impacts on agriculture in the news: 2021 Atmospheric drying will lead to lower crop yields, shorter trees across the globe Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “Life After Fossil Fuels: … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, BioInvasion, Drought, Extreme Weather, Heat, Soil, Soil, Water, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged climage change, disease, erosion, food production, pests, soil, water, weeds
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Invasion of feral hogs yet another hazard for the future
Preface. The Decline category used to be Death By A Thousand Cuts. Feral hogs are yet another cut for anyone who survives peak oil. Not only will climate change be drastically cutting back food production, feral hogs will too, and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity Loss, BioInvasion, Disease
Tagged agriculture, Bioinvasion, disease, feral pigs, wild hogs
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Plant BioInvasion threaten future crops
Preface. Our industrial agriculture is utterly dependent on fossil fuels, which require 10 calories of energy for every food calorie produced. Invasive weeds will make growing food even harder when fossils are gone, and since pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides … Continue reading
The global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity
Preface. Although I consider peak oil to be the largest threat, since all other resources and economic activities depend on it, we’re faced with a convergence of hundreds of other problems enabled by fossil fuels, which caused the the huge … Continue reading
Invasive insects
Preface. Below is a by no means exhaustive list of insect scourges, just the ones I happen to run across. Whoever is still around after collapse will sure be hard pressed to survive — unless they add insects to their … Continue reading
Posted in BioInvasion
Tagged Bioinvasion, crops, insects, invasive species, pesticide
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Vines are taking over forests
Laurance, W. October 5, 2013. Planet of the vines: Climbing plants are taking over. NewScientist. Giant vines are beginning to strangle Earth’s tropical forests, and it’s not just due to climate change. Gaze out over a tropical rainforest and the … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, BioInvasion, Climate Change
Tagged biodiversity, carbon dioxide, climate change, forests, vines
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