The Guardian | We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot by George Monbiot

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is

The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we dread. But there’s one threat that haunts me more than any other: the collapse of the global food system. We cannot predict what the immediate trigger might be. But the war with Iran is just the right kind of event.

Drawing on years of scientific data, I’ve been arguing for some time that this risk exists – and that governments are completely unprepared for it. In 2023, I made a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into environmental change and food security, with a vast list of references. Called as a witness, I spent much of the time explaining that the issue was much wider than the inquiry’s scope.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran

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"Dépaysement: #MentalHealth Impacts as the Environment Changes - alienated and displaced from home: Mental impacts of #EnvironmentalChange."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202603/depaysement-mental-health-impacts-as-the-environment-changes

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📍Abiotic and biotic factors jointly affect #AbovegroundBiomass in #SedgeWetlands of China, but biotic factors play a dominant role⚖️.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf137

ICYMI: Repeating Historical Studies to Understand Functional Responses to Environmental Change by Buckley et al.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738435

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Ruiting Wang et al. explored the threshold-dependent relationship between #FunctionalDiversity and tree species #EcologicalMultifunctionality along urban and suburban gradients and their environmental regulatory mechanisms.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf059

Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change by Wieczynski et al.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738412

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Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up

Sonia D. Wesche
Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon
Michael A. Robidoux
Courtney W. Mason

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/161

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Abiotic and biotic factors jointly affect #AbovegroundBiomass in #SedgeWetlands of China

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https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf137

With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-32c-mediterranean-tropicalization-shifts-high.html

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