From Forests To Oceans: Protecting The Earth From Climate Change

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Every week, Fracked Earth News collects the most important climate change news including:

__ A secretly-made decision in the UK will allow farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides on their crops for 120 days, though the National Farmers Union complains that’s not enough. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said they reached the decision by just “following the science.” What “science”?

__WTF? California’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources has conducted an investigation “of possible oilfield contamination into the water aquifers that serve millions of people in and around Los Angeles,” but won’t release results.

__3,000+ residents of Fukushima “have filed for compensation for mental distress over radiation emanating from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster.” They’re asking TEPCO pay “100,000 yen per person per month and 200,000 yen per person for the first six months after the meltdown.”

Is ALEC Behind State Lawsuits Against EPA & The Clean Water Act?

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On June 29th, thirteen states—Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming—filed a lawsuit in the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri, challenging certain aspects of new regulations under the Clean Water Act as issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. No sooner was that lawsuit underway than nine other states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin—filed a similar lawsuit against the regulations in the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Ohio and Michigan promptly filed a their lawsuit against the new regulations in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. And now Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have filed their suit, the fourth in this series, in Houston.

Twenty-seven states in all—even more than the current number of Republican candidates for president. If states’ rights are involved in something, chances are so is ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), which, following the ALEC paradigm, focuses squarely on the states. Thus, it’s interesting to compare what’s being reported about the states’ claims in the 13-state lawsuit to what’s in ALEC’s “Resolution Regarding Clean Water Act Regulations of EPA Definition of ‘Waters of the U.S.’” which was issued October 11, 2014.

Your Dinner Vs. The Planet: The High Cost Of Meat

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Is it necessary for humans to eat meat at the scale we currently do?

Taking note of the sheer number of vegetarian and vegan diets practised everyday it is clear we do not need meat, even if we enjoy eating it. D’Silva, in her journal, written in 2000 for Compassion in World Farming Trust, wrote that cutting out “the costly inefficient factory farmed animal ‘protein converter’” would increase the amount protein we can get straight from the source. This would mean more people could be fed on less food, a positive step in reducing world hunger.

There are a number of potential health issues that may arise with the over-consumption of meat every day and for every meal; obesity has already become a big issue in America, and Europe is catching up. Nierenberg wrote in 2003 that eating meat every day is a more recent phenomenon — until the industrialisation of the process, meat was generally only eaten on special occasions and, even then, largely by the rich.

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