Putting the Vaccine Buzz into Perspective
The reality is that pandemics don’t stop on a dime, vaccines can’t be rushed and their safe delivery is quite complicated.
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The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade
The headlines that trumpet coronavirus boondoggles have become, in effect, the rain on our yes-we-now-have-a-vaccine! parade. How could some be making billions off the horror that’s killing millions?
The Quiet Resilience of Willowbrook Farm
COVID-19 has raised significant questions about meat production, and Lutfi and Ruby Radwan have added their voices to the chorus of environmental campaigners, scientists and animal welfare advocates arguing that the pandemic is a direct result of industrial-scale meat production.
Camp Mni Luzahan launches community Covid-19 testing
Keeping the patrol, the camp, the meals, the sobriety, and the testing in the hands of Native community members is “innovative and grassrootsy,” but at the same time it’s all part of the promise forebearers made to keep the peace when they signed the treaties, Angel notes.
Flour power: The miller’s tale
One thing this pandemic has made clear is that food doesn’t come from supermarket shelves. It never did. Food comes from the soil, the sea – and the hands of people.
Is 2020 the Opening for a Just Transition?
As the U.S. considers how to reopen, stimulate, and recover its economy post-pandemic, how radically could it be reimagined?
‘Herd Immunity’ Is an Inviting Idea but Terrible Policy
There is no quick way out of this pandemic, but there is an assured way forward. It requires competent government, flexible economies and attentive citizens.
Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations
More than ever, public support for healthy food production and distribution shows itself as a win-win strategy that is indispensable for combining long-standing social and economic challenges, now aggravated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Role of Government in Climate Matters: Isn’t It Obvious?
The two greatest existential threats facing the nation—viral pandemics and climate change—demand a science-based response. So, it is hardly surprising that the relationship between science and the federal government is being debated in this year of chaos, crisis, and calamity.
Pausing the game of growth
Here is a proposition: think of the economy as made of Lego. All rules to organise extraction, production, allocation, consumption, and disposal are social institutions. I
A Pandemic Pivot
If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time.
How the global coronavirus stimulus could put Paris Agreement on track
In our new analysis, published as a “policy forum” paper in the journal Science, we show that an opportunity for getting on a path to a 1.5C world can be seized if just a fraction of Covid-19 fiscal stimulus is invested annually in a “climate-positive” recovery.