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A Geoengineering Map
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ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation have produced an interactive map of geoengineering projects around the world.

It’s an attempt to shed light on the worldwide state of geoengineering by showing the scope of research and experimentation.

This project builds on an earlier map of Earth Systems Experimentation published in 2012. That original map documented almost 300 projects and experiments related to geoengineering. Five years later, more than 800 such projects can be identified. These include projects in Carbon Capture, Solar Radiation Management, Weather Modification and other approaches. There is no complete record of weather and climate control projects, so this map is necessarily partial, but it will grow as we continue researching and as new experiments are launched.

Explore the map at ▻http://map.geoengineeringmonitor.org

#Geoengineering

“Veggie” burger has no bases for safety: FDA
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Documents show that makers of the “Impossible Burger” ignored FDA’s warnings about safety of burger’s key GMO ingredient

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Creators of a fake-meat burger made with a high-profile genetically engineered ingredient may have landed their experimental industry in a sizzling food safety mess, casting doubt on a Silicon Valley foodtech investor bubble.

“The FDA told Impossible Foods that its burger was not going to meet government safety standards, and the company admitted it didn’t know all of its constituents. Yet it sold it anyway to thousands of unwitting consumers. Responsible food companies don’t treat customers this way,” said Jim Thomas of ETC Group. “Impossible Foods should pull the burgers from the market unless and until safety can be established by the FDA and apologize to those whose safety it may have risked.”

#Alimentation #Biologie_synthèse #Santé_publique

Should we call it murder? - Stephen Lewis
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I’m not allowed to characterize the desolate sabotage of the Global Fund as murder, but in the private depths of my soul, I really believe it is murder. There, I’ve said it. But rather than be discarded as some rhetorical extremist, let me simply assert that we have no right, by any measure of human decency, to allow people to die, in huge numbers, unnecessarily.

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In the reckless haste to coddle the multinationals, global public health has taken a merciless hit.
 
And here’s something else to think about. Not a one of these companies has given a direct nickel to the coffers of the Global Fund, despite endless requests that they do so. And BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil are all members of the Global Business Coalition Health (GBCHealth), successor to the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS.
 
But if it’s too much to ask that capitalism re-direct priorities, there is one avenue that has been embraced by virtually all of Europe with the exception of the United Kingdom. It’s called the Financial Transactions Tax, or Robin Hood Tax in the vernacular.

#sida #global_fund