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#Irish #History
You might want 2 add the #PotatoeFamine hashtag.

Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.

The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in 🇲🇽 and spread from the 🇺🇸 2 🇮🇪.

https://www.sheetofhistory.com/2025/12/the-great-irish-famine-how-potato.html

The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives

The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland experienced one of the most dev...

sheet of histoey

Gen_G ⏚Mar 15

#AgroIndustrie #monoculture #surproduction
[Pardon, mais 😂]

Trop de choux-fleurs et pas de clients, les légumiers de France rencontrent une crise « catastrophique »

Les producteurs de poireaux, de potimarrons ou de carottes subissent depuis plusieurs mois les conséquences d’une météo tempétueuse et de températures printanières en plein hiver. Certains agriculteurs croulent sur des légumes en surnombre, quand des fruiticulteurs craignent de devoir arracher leurs arbres.

https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/environnement/article/trop-de-choux-fleurs-et-pas-de-clients-les-legumiers-de-france-rencontrent-une-crise-catastrophique_261344.html

BellingenNSW Feb 25

The NT: In them old cotton fields back home

"Incoming Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly has apologised over his trove of divisive past social media posts, a day before he is formally sworn-in."

"Mr Connolly's past commentary has been labelled variously as sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic and bigoted by various groups including the Northern Land Council (NLC), the Country Women's Association NT and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the NT (APONT)." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/david-connolly-apologises-over-social-media-controversy/106389356

King Charles’s official representative in the Northern Territory >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116135022082276542

#NT #Australia #cotton #monoculture #plantations #sexism #racism #homophobia #transphobia #sorry #DevelopingNation

Image: The 'wide open spaces' of the NT populated with cotton. As far as the eye can see a "third-world crop" or a critical commodity for developing nations.

Controversial NT administrator apologises over 'hurt' from social media posts

Just a day before being sworn in as the Northern Territory's new representative for King Charles III, NT Administrator David Connolly has apologised over a social media furore.

BellingenNSW Feb 24

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

BellingenNSW Feb 24

A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories

When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.

“Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities
#forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature

The Man Without Qualities - Wikipedia

BellingenNSW Jan 26

The fig leaves have been dropped

"The US Department of Homeland Security used the image with the heading "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending" in a post on social media in August 2025."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

Origins of Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist Terms and Symbols
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/origins-of-neo-nazi-and-white-supremacist-terms-and-symbols

Image: John Gast, American Progress, The "Spirit of the Frontier" 1872
#ManifestDestiny #SettlerSociety #expansion #empire #progress #BloodAndSoil #WhiteSupremacists #EthnoNationalism #monoculture #FirstNationsPeoples #biodiversity

PrivacyDigest Jan 20

The Rise and Fall of the American #Monoculture

The American monoculture -- the era when three #television networks, seven #movie studios, and a handful of record labels determined virtually everything the country watched and heard -- is collapsing under the weight of #algorithmic #recommendation engines and infinite #streaming options.
#algorithm

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/1946207/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-monoculture?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture - Slashdot

The American monoculture -- the era when three television networks, seven movie studios, and a handful of record labels determined virtually everything the country watched and heard -- is collapsing under the weight of algorithmic recommendation engines and infinite streaming options. An estimated 2...

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