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TOP NEWS OF THE WEEKGOOD NEWS ON GLOBAL WARMING

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Regenerative food, farm, forest, energy, and conservation practices, in
combination, can quickly stop global warming.

My 2020 book, Grassroots Rising, ( Chelsea Green Publishing
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whereby regenerative and organic food, farming, and land use, deployed on
approximately 20% of the 1.9 billion acres of US farmland, pasture, rangelands,
forest lands, and urban environments, in combination with a transition to
alternative energy and energy conservation (reducing emissions by 45-60%), can
enable us to reach zero net emissions by 2030
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Now leading global climate experts such as Michael Mann (Penn State) and Joeri
Rogelj (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have announced that previous
estimations of the “long time lag” between reaching zero net emissions and
literally stopping the rise in global warming were vastly overestimated.
Scientists and climate analysts have characterized this new model as a
“game-changing new scientific understanding.”

This “game-changing” new scientific understanding tells us that if the global
community can quickly reach zero net emissions before the oceans are saturated
(within 10-30 years) and terrestrial soils and systems are irreversibly
degraded, the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems have the capacity to draw down
enough of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to literally stop all
global warming within 10 years.

READ: Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After
Emissions Go to Zero
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READ: 60 Minutes, The Guardian, and Game-Changing New Climate Science
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REGENERATIONCARBON NEUTRAL BY 2030

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While most nations, including the US, have pledged to reach zero net Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, more and more countries, regions, and
municipalities are pledging to reach this goal by 2030.

And of course by carbon neutrality we’re not just talking about more excess
atmospheric carbon stored in trees, plants, and soils, but also increased soil
fertility, soil moisture, biodiversity, and elimination of poverty among the
world’s three billion small farmers, herders, forest dwellers, indigenous, and
rural communities, who suffer the most from poverty, malnutrition, forced
migration, violence, and war.

Bhutan (with 100% organic agriculture) has already moved beyond net zero to
being “carbon negative,” to actually drawing down and sequestering more CO2
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As we pointed out last week, Mexico and many of the world’s predominately arid
and semi-arid countries (40% of the world’s lands) can achieve zero net
emissions, and in fact can become carbon negative, by deploying the new organic
and regenerative Agave agroforestry system, which the OCA and Mexican small
farmers are developing, on a fraction (1 to 2 percent in Mexico) of degraded
farm, pasture, and desert lands.

READ: Agave Power: Greening the Desert
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COVID-19MASS MEDIA FINALLY ADMITTING THAT COVID-19 WAS A LAB RELEASE

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After a year of ignoring or covering up the real facts surrounding the origins
of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Magazine, along with a number
of other publications
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On January 4, New York Magazine published this meticulously-researched and
carefully written 12,000-word masterpiece by biological weapons historian,
Nicholson Baker. If you want to know what really happened, this is the best
article thus far.

READ: The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
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GOFHALL OF SHAME

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We’ve profiled Robert Kadlec
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Amerithrax investigation, respectively.

In the Trump Administration, Kadlec and Hassell have been the Pandemic
Industrial Complex’s kingmakers. When Biden cleans house, he should oust these
two for corruption, including “seeking $100 million for labs that Hassell told
Kadlec in an email
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accountability’ for unspecified Department of Defense projects.”

In this newest installment of the Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame, we add fellow
anthrax alumnus David R. Franz, now an adviser to EcoHealth Alliance, the
coronavirus-hunting funder of the Wuhan Institute of Virology that we covered in
our profile of Peter Daszak
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Franz is a retired army colonel who served at the U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) beginning in 1987
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Chief of the Toxicology Division (1989-1992), Deputy Commander (1993-1995), and
Commander (1995-1998).

In August 1998, Franz left USAMRIID to work at the Southern Research Institute
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virulent Ames anthrax used in the 2001 attacks. We know this because, in 2004,
it accidentally sent live spores of this strain to a children's hospital in Oakland
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David Franz was understood to be within the circle of potential suspects
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To this day, no one knows who did it.

READ: David R. Franz: EcoHealth Alliance's Anthrax-Era Biological Weapons
Scientist
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SUPPORT OCA & CRLFIGHT FOR TRUTH

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Nearly every conversation these days starts with: “How are you doing?” And it
should. We have been worried all year, especially about the most vulnerable. We
are all trying to take care of ourselves, and each other.

But we should also be asking each other what we are doing—beyond of course
adjusting to and coping with whatever havoc COVID-19 has wrought on our personal
lives.

What are we doing to make our own immune systems more resilient? What are we
doing to put an end to a food, farm, medical, and political system that sets up
people for chronic disease and lab-created, genetically engineered bioweapons
such as SARS-CoV-2 that prey upon the elderly and those in poor health?

What are we doing to restore and preserve biodiversity, soil health, climate
stability, and rural livelihoods—under the gun of industrial agriculture and GMO
monocultures?

What are we doing to force our local, state and federal lawmakers to rethink
unjust social, economic and environmental policies that leave millions of people
unnecessarily and hopelessly vulnerable?

Author and activist Arundhati Roy, in an article about the heart-wrenching
impact of the coronavirus on the people of India, writes:

"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine
their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between
one world and the next.

We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and
hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky
skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to
imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. In a tragic way, the pandemic
sweeping the globe today validates so much of the work we at OCA have been
dedicated to for more than 20 years."

In a good way, the pandemic and disastrous government responses have reaffirmed
our sense of urgency.

We are (still) ready to fight and win.

We want to keep exposing the bad players, and perhaps even more important, bring
you the “game-changing” good news on the organic and regenerative fronts, but we
need your support and your donations.

If you can, please make a generous donation to help continue this fight.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit
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Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not
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Donate $100 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Ronnie’s new book
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Click here for more ways to support our work
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VIDEO OF THE WEEKPIONEER OF THE LOCAL ECONOMY MOVEMENT

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We were lucky enough to sit down for a conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge,
pioneer of the New Economy Movement & recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize,
the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the
revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of
local communities and economies worldwide.”

Helena Norberg-Hodge is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures (1991), and Local is Our Future (2019).

She is co-author of the books Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary "The Economics of Happiness."

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures / Economics of Happiness
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International Commission on the Future of Food & Agriculture, the International
Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

WATCH: Live with Helena Norberg-Hodge
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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING FOR THE WEEK

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Lab Leak the 'Most Credible' Source of Coronavirus Outbreak, Says Top US
Government Official
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What I Saw Inside the Capitol Riot
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Mexico Farm Lobby Blasts Ban on GMO Corn; Organic Growers Welcome It
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U.S. Diet Guidelines Sidestep Scientific Advice to Cut Sugar and Alcohol
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Does Regenerative Agriculture Have a Race Problem?
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Humans of the GREAT RESET: What the Future MIGHT Look Like in 2021 – if the
Controlling Elites Have Their Way
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Google Workers Form Union to 'Promote Solidarity, Democracy, and Social and
Economic Justice'
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Roaming Charges: White Riot, They Wanna Riot, They Wanna Riot of Their Own
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