if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.

Well, it turns out the same is true for weeds, and Monsanto is surprised by resistent strains of weeds.

Considering how hard it had been to create those crops, “the thinking was, it would be really difficult for weeds to become tolerant”

My favorite quote from this article was actually this one:

the company’s scientists had just spent more than a decade, and many millions of dollars, trying to create the Roundup-resistant plants that they desperately wanted

This reminds me of an adage from one of my strategy professors – hope is still not a strategy.

seismologists say that a 6.3 magnitude quake that struck India’s Maharashtra state in 1967 was directly caused by the 1963 construction of a major dam and reservoir project in that region.

And the Denver Post confirms that scientists suspect that fracking is the root cause:

the seismic activity, which began in March 2011 and ended at the end of the year, was clustered around the well bore, and reported that a fault has since been identified in the rock layer where water was being injected

Read more from the Denver Post: After quakes, Ohio plans tough gas-drilling rules – The Denver Post

Is this a cost that we’re willing to bear?

I wanted to understand how massive processes of violence become normalized in modern society

Again, ignore the word ‘violence’ in that quote, and focus on the word ‘processes’. Pretty much all mass-market food production now is a process, not farming.

I recommend checking out the article, but I will warn – it’s rather graphic.