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How our food system is eating away at nature, and our future
As you eat your next meal, ask yourself if you really know what you’re eating – not just the ingredients or where they came from, but what has gone into them. How much land was needed? How much water was used? How much energy was required? We need to ask ourselves these questions, because how we produce, consume and, sadly, waste food poses a massive threat to our future.
The 2018 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report has just been published, and the news isn’t good. The Living Planet Index shows an average decline of 60% in population sizes of vertebrate species between 1970 and 2014. The dominant cause, along with overexploitation of our resources, is the food system.
The food system is Earth’s biggest user of land, taking up 34% of the planet. Our unrelenting quest for more food is hampering our planet’s ability to sustain itself. The production of crops such as sugar cane, soybean and palm oil has led directly to the clearing of 40% of the world’s once-forested land. The food system also uses 69% of all freshwater. The pursuit of popular commodities is draining aquifers and depriving communities of traditional water sources, such as in Petorca, Chile, where avocado farming has exploded to meet overseas demand. The food system is also the single biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, producing around 25%.
Our food footprint grows, while we squander a third of all we produce. Yes, one-third of the food we grow is never eaten. It is lost on farms and in the supply chain, or simply thrown away. It’s not just nutrients or money that goes in the bin, but also the water, energy and land that went into producing the food.
With land being converted from its natural state and adversely affected by climate change, 75% of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems are seriously impacted by land degradation. Within that, cropland makes up 18% of already degraded land and 20% of degrading land. And because the land we already use for agriculture is underperforming, we’re increasing the pressure to convert more habitats.
Tied to degraded land, the health of our soil is a bigger threat than most would realize. Approximately one-quarter of all life on Earth exists underneath our feet. But poor agricultural practices and climate change are damaging this vital resource. Over-tillage, lack of crop rotation and unsustainable agri-inputs have combined to ensure we’ve lost 30% of our topsoil in the past 150 years. Not only does this erosion represent a vanishing home for numerous species, it also exacerbates climate change. The depletion of soil organic carbon has resulted in the release of as much as 4.4 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. In a vicious circle, the rising temperatures we’re experiencing further dry and degrade soils, and leave them simply to blow away in the wind.
Soil erosion isn’t the only way in which our food system is cannibalizing itself. Bees and other pollinators critical to global food security are also under increasing threat. Although 75% of global food crops benefit from pollination, intensive agricultural practices, along with climate change and invasive species, have dramatically impacted the abundance, diversity and health of pollinators.
Likewise with fish. FAO has estimated that fisheries and aquaculture alone assure the livelihoods of 10-12% of the world’s population, and that 4.3 billion people are reliant on fish for 15% of their animal protein intake. But overfishing is decimating our fish stocks, 93% of which are overfished or at critical limits.
This paints a bleak picture. But there is hope. We have the opportunity to transform our food system. We can evolve to a new way of producing, consuming and valuing food: Food 2.0.
Firstly, as consumers, we can influence the way food is produced by changing the way we eat. This involves moving to “balanced and better” diets, in which we eat a broad range of sustainably produced foods. It will look different in different parts of the world, as it’s impacted by what’s available. The focus must be on nutritious, fresh and local produce. Eating within national dietary guidelines is a largely achievable goal. It’s not only better for people, but also likely better for the planet.
We must also allow nothing to go to waste. That means shopping, cooking and serving more smartly. This applies to businesses too. Research from Champions 12.3 has shown that there is a business case for private sector transformation: for every $1 invested in preventing food waste, businesses can enjoy up to $14 of savings. More businesses are rectifying their wasteful approaches, including by using the WWF Hotel Kitchen methodology of “measure-prevent-divert”.
Looking at our food system from “planet to plate” calls for improving technical approaches at the farm level. By managing existing farmland better, we can restore soil quality, optimize productivity and bring disused land back into production. This reduces the need to convert forests, savannahs and mangroves. Working with the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund, an impact investment fund that blends resources from the private, public and philanthropic sectors, WWF is currently identifying projects with the potential for most impact on productivity and reducing pressures. We’re also working hand-in-hand with farmers, from Paraguay to Zambia to Indonesia, to introduce climate-smart agriculture with diversification of produce, crop rotation and sustainable inputs. This improves more than just soil health –it also improves food security and livelihoods.
To protect biodiversity, we must adopt landscape and seascape-scale planning and management to improve habitat variety and connectivity. The inclusion of non-agricultural habitats within land management plans can minimize species loss, boost populations and improve ecosystem services. WWF is working in several key landscapes and seascapes, including the Cerrado in Brazil, which is home to 5% of the world’s biodiversity.
Right now, the food system is eating up our world. We must make the changes that get us back to where the food system nourishes us all – people and planet. If we don’t transform the system, we won’t be able to feed everyone. Worse still, we may not have a planet. We must aim higher. Stakeholders must come together and work more closely across sectors, and with greater urgency, to integrate decision-making that will protect our planet and achieve a new deal for nature and people.
The 14th Conference of Parties (COP14) to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt in November could be our chance. More than 190 countries are meeting at what is being seen as the most important conference for nature. This offers us an unparalleled opportunity. From now until 2020 may be a decisive period in history. The time to act is now.
73 Comments on "How our food system is eating away at nature, and our future"
Davy on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 6:43 am
Well if you refer to my last comment on “Could A Limit On Kids Stop The World’s Population Crisis?” then you will get the macro context of population and consumption that would be the back drop to this article. I am doing permaculture with animals. This is a multispecies management system of rotational grazing that seeks to maximize the nutrition that can be gathered from pasture buy limiting grazing demands to a point where the pasture is most healthy. Erosion, overgrazing, and water quality degradation is avoided. Forage needs to be grazed within a range of nutrition and growth level of health. A plant species has an optimum growth level just as animals do. The manure needs to be dispersed properly to maintain fertilization. This means rotating the animals and positioning the water sources properly to influence animal movement. Nutrients need to be returned evenly over the entire grazing system. Ideally this effort will lower input needs but as you increase stocking rate outside inputs become necessary. Economy dictates stocking rate needs so a permaculture grazing system is tough to do and to provide a living. A community is needed to share resources and do some specialization. Currently the community of most is globalism which is not focused on permaculture. Globalism focuses on monocultures. If you are in a sustainable subsistence economy then you are only in that situation because somehow globalism has allowed it. That is my situation of grazing animals in the Ozarks of the US. I am semi-retired and can do this properly but not at a level to support my lifestyle. Globalism allows me to do this. You can apply this situation across the planet. What I mean by this is permaculture fits all agriculture types and permaculture is handicapped across the globe by the requirements of globalism or the exposure to globalism’s potentially destructive ways.
The key to all permaculture agriculture that seeks to be resilient and sustainable is adherence to planetary cycles with humans and animals part of this process. This means following a system that seeks to remove nonrenewables and replace them with renewables. Waste streams must be reincorporated. Humans need animals for labor and food and their waste streams for nutrients. Animals need humans for control and providing plants for food. Plants need humans and animals for the right growth situations. There needs to be fallow periods and the natural ecosystem must be part of this system meaning you can’t have all the land in permaculture. Maybe one quarter in permaculture, one quarter fallow, and one half natural is a general formula. This of course varies by what and where this permaculture is done. There still needs to be urban areas to facilitate technology for supporting this permaculture. We need knowledge and tools. Education is required.
What we have now is the worst of all worlds. We have monocultures requiring long distance transport. We have economies that require profit which requires continuous growth. This means globalism with economies of scale and just in time networks to facilitate all of the above in high energy. We can’t leave this because our populations are too large and have become systematically dependent on this arrangement. So leaving this with a happy ending is not part of the equation. We can begin the process of leaving it with permaculture and integration of animals, fallow periods, and natural areas based upon the natural cycles of the particular area. We can reduce our reliance on industrial agriculture as we try to reduce our populations.
We can do this with urban areas playing a part by reducing their energy needs both power and food. People need to live locally adhering to seasonal needs. Intermittency needs to be embraced with demand management. There needs to be more emphasis on the collective and less on the individual such that unrestrained consumerism and poor lifestyles are reduced. In this type of world leisure should reflect localism and energy constraints. This means things like travel needs to change for example and you can move down the list changing human behavior to reflect the needs of reducing consumption needs. This is required because to allow permaculture to work and be economic requires a community in new lower energy paradigm. Urban areas cannot be supported at the levels they are at currently by moving back to permaculture. Technology is not the answer but is still part of the solution. The old ways tried and tested over millennium need to be embraced again but with wisdom gathered form a huge increase in knowledge that has come from modernism. The two mixed with hybrid results. This wisdom can choose what tech to keep and what to reject because tech has allowed the magnification of the destructive effects of poor human behavior. This is about self-control of the individual and the collective at this point on the way down for population and consumption. This means the critical behavioral element is paramount. This maybe the hardest part because modern man does not want to be controlled he wants his neighbor to be controlled. This is cake and eat it mentality that will somehow have to change. The way up was unrestrained and almost a joy ride now is the hard part of survival on the way down.
makati1 on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 7:37 am
Waste is the only reason there is a food shortage. Especially in the US where he waste would feed all of the people in the Philippines.
Some sources claim that there is as much as 50% wasted by loss from field to plate. That may sound high, but tihnk about it. Harvest loses, shipping losses, processing loses, shipping losses to warehouses, shipping to retail loses, purchasing losses, preparation losses, and finally just waste as food is thrown away for many reasons in the home and restaurants.
Waste. Mostly in the West where too many steps and regulations control food use.
Davy on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 7:53 am
“Waste is the only reason there is a food shortage. Especially in the US where he waste would feed all of the people in the Philippines.”
Sure billy, explain the economics of that one. Explain the fossil fuels required to allow that to happen. Waste on a continental scale within the context of globalism is systematic and related to all the cogs in the wheel including your very overpopulated p’s.
“Some sources claim that there is as much as 50% wasted by loss from field to plate.”
That is rubbish. The system would not survive with those numbers. Where is your reference?
“Waste. Mostly in the West where too many steps and regulations control food use.”
Total rubbish. Asia is now the largest region of waste of all kinds because of overpopulation combining with overconsumption in the context of increasing affluence. Total bias on billy’s part.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 8:55 am
Mak, in the future nothing will be wasted because food will become more valuable than gold. It may replace money as a currency and when Climate Disruption takes full force and upends the growing and harvest cycles it will become a god to be worshipped. Dark ages indeed.
I AM THE MOB on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 9:27 am
US ‘might lose’ war against China or Russia, report to Congress says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-war-china-who-win-russia-national-defence-strategy-congress-report-donald-trump-a8636866.html
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 9:55 am
supertard is genius. he’s practicing permacultism but with lazy man farming (not the type that’s my invention) techniques; all he does is moving water around and his goat follow.
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDie on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 11:31 am
This a what Western nation stand for today. Asian, Russian and Whites nationals and supremacist are laughing at the Western nation death.
Meet the post-millennials — the most educated, ethnically diverse Americans
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meet-the-post-millennials-youve-never-seen-such-a-group-2018-11-16
Non-Hispanic whites will account for 52% of the demographic, and a mix of minorities account for the other 48%. It’s becoming more diverse: in 2002, whites made up 61% of the group, while minorities comprised 39%.
Whites man, you are not king of the mountain. If you are Whites, it is your duty to do everything you can to destroy Western nation. Do the mininum is required of you, use social services are much as you can, use black labor as much as you can.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 3:37 pm
gettard, it’s hard to be a white supremacists because ((supertards)) sergey and larry gave me google. stuffs that take years and decades to think up is now at my fingertips. i don’t need a stupid apple or even an anvil falling and smashing my head to discover newton laws. i just google it and get highly complex calculations that i can easily derrive for my needs. what we need is to prevent access to intardweb from china and russia
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 3:44 pm
our supertards now do this
Officially known as the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, it is being built with NASA to perfect quiet sonic booms that would allow craft to go supersonic over land.
this will save fuel and time. our supertards elon and gwynne shotwell also said they’ll “launch foar us military foar the defense of supertards america”. like i said if you like your rd-180 you can keep your stinking rd-180. our supertards will put micro satellites and create intardweb. i’m happy i live in america where supertards take care of everything, all i need to do is eat and sleep and pay the jizya for 1 million rounds and auto keltecs so our supertards can provide for self defense and recreation.
snowden was a low level supertard in limited hangout. we’ll going to hunt down wikileaks and bring him to trial.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 4:18 pm
watch this clip of muzzie going about his biz.
very creepy
what’s creepy is the sun like the atheists run cover for muzzie. in this case the sun edited out raw footage that has the woman yelling “muslim! muslim!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNPO9SYc-s
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 5:51 pm
If we’re gonna waste some food, how about
some of those chocolate cream pies with
the graham cracker crust, and the thick
layer of whipping cream over chocolate.
Those are perfect for high-speed throw
into the faces of liberals, Pelosi
supporters, and Trump haters.
Other than that exception, don’t waste food.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 5:58 pm
Zdrastvooyte Russki Drook,
Spaseeba for the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNPO9SYc-s
Hooray, they shot the liberal!
The liberal was running around in the street
with a knife, after setting his car on fire.
He was the perfect example of a liberal
democrat triple-voting illegal alien who
doesnt belong in the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNPO9SYc-s
The horrible wicked old feminist bitches,
Hillary Pelosi and Merkel, man-hating
ancient pancake-tit raisin prune old
horrible nasty awful bitches,
they want to flood all of western civilization
with lunatics who run around in the road
with a knife.
The answer is to vote Republican,
and give lots of money to the RNC and
Trump 2020 campaign.
Also for the police to shoot
straight, shoot more of them,
and don’t take so long next time.
Show your support for conservative
candidates and causes by piling sofas
and tires into your backyard and setting
them on fire. The black smoke is a
signal understood by other conservatives,
do your part spread the message!
https://imgflip.com/i/162na5
makati1 on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 6:08 pm
Davy, most of what I eat here is grown locally or caught in the ocean locally. It goes from field/ocean to the wet market to my house. Little loss. Soon, most of what I eat will be grown on the farm, including the fish.
There is very little waste here, outside the cities. Scraps either go to the chickens, dogs or the compost pile. I was always taught that if I put it on my plate, I had to eat all of it. No waste. I grew up in a frugal* family and raised my kids in a similar manor.
*Frugal: adjective – economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 6:10 pm
gotard, the problem is we no longer listen to supertards. today we have politicaltards, maximum politics. we need to abolish the politicaltards and let supertards in charge. that muzzie dress is easily detected by a drone and spray 22LR making death as painful as possible.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 6:25 pm
Zdrastvooyte Russki Drook,
Spaseeba for the video!
this is not liberal you tard. do you have problem saying muzzie?
it’s not terrarists, it’s muzzie terrarists
it’s not somali pirates, it’s muzzie pirates
oh btw, central african republic destroyed all mosques but muzzies just killed 100
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/at-least-42-dead-in-cathedral-attack-in-central-african-republic-37393
makati1 on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 9:51 pm
“… if you own residential property in America today you really don’t own it. You are merely leasing it from your local governments. Try skipping your property tax payment, if you don’t believe us….
So, too, under a fiat money system, you don’t own your own money….
Of course, the taxpayer – that’s you – will also be responsible for picking up the tab on the next round of too big to fail corporate bailouts.”
https://acting-man.com/?p=53785
Slip slidin’…
Anonymouse on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 1:42 am
No one reads your goatshit word salads exceptionalturd. If you want to flog goatshit for a living, of sorts, I suggest you go apply at Zerohedge. They are always on the looking for ‘exceptional’ dumbassessesss that dont know what they are talking about. And just think, if you did that, someone might actually read the your plagiarized word salads.
Davy on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 5:35 am
“… if you own residential property in America today you really don’t own it. You are merely leasing it from your local governments. Try skipping your property tax payment, if you don’t believe us….”
Nonsense, the facts of private property are self-evident to any normal personal. An extremist will use a stupid argument like this to deny something. If you use this type of reductionist thinking you don’t even own your body.
“So, too, under a fiat money system, you don’t own your own money….”
BS, out of the board uneducated senior. Little of what you say financially or economically has ever been accurate billy
“Of course, the taxpayer – that’s you – will also be responsible for picking up the tab on the next round of too big to fail corporate bailouts.”
This is fun, do you see a pattern out of the dimwit?
Davy on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 5:41 am
“No one reads your goatshit word salads exceptionalturd”
Anonymouse, you do realize you are irrelevant on this board?? You rarely even make a real comment anymore. You are not even here much anymore making irrelevant comments like the above. A once a week stupid comment is not going to help that. The gang is dead dummy. Your groupies have dispersed. Why, because they never had a real message. The message was just attacks on me because I called you all out on your binary anti-Americanism. They were irrelevant just like you. Billy can’t figure this out yet. No matter, I moderate him daily. He is not difficult with his same old wet paper bag message.
Davy on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 6:05 am
“Arizona’s SRP To Add 1,000 Megawatts Of Solar — Plus Tesla Storage — By 2025”
https://tinyurl.com/ycls6ock
“Salt River Project plans to add 200 megawatts of solar generation every year for the next five years, adding to its existing 800 MW renewable portfolio. By the end of its fiscal year 2025, SRP will have a total of more than 1,200 MW of solar energy capacity. The utility goal is to have 20% green generation by 2025, by adding renewable generation and battery storage.”
“While the bulk of the megawatts of solar to be added to the system will be industrial scale, SRP has a substantial rooftop solar program and will continue to expand it as well, Hummel noted. SRP already has close to 180 MW of residential and commercial solar, which is expected to nearly double over the utility scale solar expansion program term. The utility operates its Earthwise Energy program that enables retail customers to choose to allocate 25%, 50% or 100% of their electricity use to a mix of solar, wind and biomass.”
“The utility plans for energy storage include a March announcement that it will purchase a 25 MW/100 MW-hour battery storage system from Tesla, to be installed at the Agua Fria Generating Station in Glendale. The purchase is part of an agreement to end a 2015 suit by Tesla against SRP alleging that the utility was discouraging solar development by rate design. SRP also agreed to initiate a Customer Storage Incentive Program that will provide incentives to residential customers that purchase energy storage systems.”
I AM THE MOB on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 7:01 am
Davy
Arizona WOW! Why dont they try solar where the majority of American’s actually live ie the northeast..Oh yea they have winter and only a few hours of sunlight a month during then..
Solar is a joke..Its not practical on a large scale and never will be..
Davy on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 7:24 am
“Solar is a joke..Its not practical on a large scale and never will be..”
More desperation talk out of the PO collapsenik who does not really care about the truth behind decline but who is invested in PO collapse because his life is about a joyride based on his belief collapse is imminent. He is waking up from his manic delusions as we speak and the desperation evident. MOB, you messed up and collapse did not happen. You are like one of those wack job end of the world’ers who calls for an end date and the date passes. LMFAO. Of all the regulars here you are the most unhinged with junk science and bad behavior.
I AM THE MOB on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 7:32 am
Davy
I never said collapse would happen by now..I have said the same thing from the start..A collapse by 2030- according to (Meadows, 1972) (Motesharrei, 2014) (Turchin, 2010) (Ehrlich, 2013) (Turner, 2014) (Korowicz, 2012)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return/
https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574335/
https://www.scribd.com/document/379418787/Is-Global-Collapse-Imminent-An-Updated-Comparison-of-The-Limits-to-Growth-with-Historical-Data-Turner-2014
http://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Trade-Off1.pdf
Shouldn’t you be in church on sunday giving money to some whack job who is grandstanding on stage?
LMFAO!
Davy on Sun, 18th Nov 2018 7:42 am
“I never said collapse would happen by now..I have said the same thing from the start..A collapse by 2030”
Liar
“- according to (Meadows, 1972) (Motesharrei, 2014) (Turchin, 2010) (Ehrlich, 2013) (Turner, 2014) (Korowicz, 2012)”
Have you checked your dates stupid? Don’t you have anything more up to date? Do you realize how complex the collapse process is? Do you realize it is a process and a partially unknown process except for the generalizations? Do you realize it is location and time based? Do you realize the effects may be mitigated and adapted to pushing out that process? Do you realize demand destruction from economic decline will change the collapse dynamics?
Nope, because you are a stupid millennial waste case who quit his job and went on a joy ride and now you are sobering up.
makati1 on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 12:10 am
“The Egregious Lie Americans Tell Themselves”
“It is true that, as measured by GDP, or by the size of the credit and equity markets, or even just by the gaudy presence of our Googles, Amazons and Apples, the United States is the greatest machine for the production of money in the modern history of the world.
But this wealth is largely an abstraction, a trick of the broad and largely meaningless aggregations of numbers that makes up most of what the business pages call “economics.” The American commonwealth is shockingly impoverished. Ask anyone who’s compared the nine-plus-hour train ride from Pittsburgh to New York with the barely two-hour journey from Paris to Bordeaux, an equidistant journey, or who’s watched the orderly, accurate exit polls from a German election and compared them with the fizzling, overheating voting machines in Florida.”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-egregious-lie-americans-tell-themselves/
“The social wealth of a society is better measured by the quality of its common lived environment than by a consolidated statistical approximation like GDP, or even an attempt at weighted comparisons like so-called purchasing power parity. There is a reason why our great American cities, for all of our supposed wealth, often feel and look so shabby. The money goes elsewhere….
…the con artists running America’s military-industrial complex are worried that the hundreds of billions we sink every year into planes that cannot fly in the rain and ships that cannot steer have left the United States virtually unable to win any wars….
Poverty—both individual and social—is a policy, not an accident, and not some kind of natural law. These are deliberate choices about the allocation of resources.”
Slip slidin’ ever faster…
Cloggie on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 2:03 am
But this wealth is largely an abstraction, a trick of the broad and largely meaningless aggregations of numbers that makes up most of what the business pages call “economics.” The American commonwealth is shockingly impoverished. Ask anyone who’s compared the nine-plus-hour train ride from Pittsburgh to New York with the barely two-hour journey from Paris to Bordeaux, an equidistant journey, or who’s watched the orderly, accurate exit polls from a German election and compared them with the fizzling, overheating voting machines in Florida.”
There is a better world in store for you, European America. Drop exceptionalism and Washington and become what you have been for thousands of years: European. Be proud of your roots.
Cloggie on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 2:13 am
Brexit posse latest:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6403103/Brexiteer-ERG-group-produce-report-savaging-Mays-Brexit-plan.html
Rebels want “Canada-plus”. Sorry to break it to you BoJo c.s., but there is not going to be a “Canada+”. There will not be a renegotiation. Restaurant is closed. Remaining options: Barnier-Raab, Remain, or no-deal. That’s it.
And Britain is NOT ready to crash out. Labour will prevent that.
Brexit-kosher and slimeball Raab appears to regret his failed coup attempt and now all of a sudden backs May again in a possible vote of no confidence:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401901/Dominic-Raab-says-Theresa-failed-stand-EU-bullies.html
BoJo (scroll down for graphic picture) keeps putting his personal ambition over the interest of the country:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6404381/Boris-Johnson-brands-Mays-Brexit-deal-appalling-sell-leaving-facing-colonial-rule.html
Link shows 25 names of the required 48 top initiate a vote of no confidence procedure. It is unclear if 48 names will be achieved. But if the vote will materialize it is unclear (or according to Peter Hitchins and Lord Heseltine even unlikely) that May would be toppled. According to the latest poll, 50% of the British electorate wants May to stay in power.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 4:51 am
“The American commonwealth is shockingly impoverished. Ask anyone who’s compared the nine-plus-hour train ride from Pittsburgh to New York with the barely two-hour journey from Paris to Bordeaux”
What a poor comparison. The two cannot be compared in this way. The US is decentralized economy in many ways. It is transient. This is why growth pops up in new places and decay is left bare. Europe is stagnate in this respect. Growth is built in place to last. There is no room to move and the mentality is different. This kind of talk is pure anti-American cherry picking just like neder and billy’s daily and obsessive anti-American agenda posting. The US is very wealthy and very poor. I see it they can’t. These two old men are cherry picking obscure blogs for tidbits of damning prose for agendas that are deeply personal and twisted. These two old men are frankly insane. No they are not insane as people with daily lives. They can function as far as I can tell. The insanity is intellectually and here they are off in a la la land of unreality.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:16 am
“Why The EU Can’t Save Iran”
https://tinyurl.com/y8ph7pnz
“The full impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran is still to be assessed, as major underlying factors remain opaque…OPEC’s current fear of an oil glut in 2019, as indicated by investment banks, IEA, EIA and others, might not materialize. Market fundamentals are still strong, especially taking into account that U.S. refineries are ramping up production after maintenance season, while Iranian floating oil will end soon as sanctions are about to hit. Still, one of Iran’s major lifelines could be the current EU approach, which is largely trying to mitigate the effects of U.S. sanctions on European companies and financial operators. The rosy future painted by EU officials however shows severe cracks, while reality on the ground is extremely bleak. European efforts to protect trade with Iran, as an answer to mitigate U.S. sanctions, are hitting a brick wall. European politicians seem to be out of touch with reality not only in the markets, but also concerning the attitude of several of its member countries. European politicians, mostly working from their shiny offices in Brussels and Strassbourg, seem to be living in an ivory tower, as no real practical support for all their measures has been shown in the respective member states. The last factor showing the weakness of the EU Iran approach is the fact that no single European country is willing to host a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) as they fear the wrath of the U.S. Washington’s influence in real politics and markets is still much larger on a global and even bilateral stage than Brussels wants to admit.”
“Even with full EU support, the SPV, according to most analysts, will not shield EU companies and banks from US sanctions. These will be hefty, for sure much more than the current Iran-EU trade volumes could counter. A possible failure of the EU SPV proposal would for sure heat up the market very soon. Iran’s main lifeline at present is very weak, Asian markets continue to buy Iranian crude and products, but seem to be heading to zero crude imports when the current U.S. waivers will end. At the same time, the effects of the decision by international financial system SWIFT not to allow any-more deals with Iran already has significantly slowed down trade with Europe.”
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:23 am
Oops, sorry wrong link again
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-18/why-eu-cant-save-iran
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:24 am
“U.S. Sanctions Cut 6% Off Russian GDP Since 2014, New Study Claims”
https://tinyurl.com/y88gx3j5
(graph) https://tinyurl.com/y9c956vj
A new study by Bloomberg Economics claims that US sanctions have knocked as much as 6% off Russia’s economy over the past four years. The findings highlight the general devastation that Washington and E.U. sanctions against Moscow wreaked in the aftermath of the Crimean crisis in 2014. According to the authors the estimate is based on a growth forecast that would be reasonably expected according to indicators at the end of 2013 if the crisis had never happened. The study found that while some of the blame is due to the slump in oil prices, sanctions have been the bigger driver, and perhaps partly the introduction of inflation targeting and a sell-off in emerging markets could be other factors. Via the AP According to the report, “The underperformance has been much bigger than crude alone can explain.” Scott Johnson, study author and analyst at Bloomberg Economics in London, concluded “Part of the gap is likely to reflect the enduring impact of sanctions both imposed and threatened over the last five years.” Bloomberg reports of Moscow’s reactionary measures in the face of sanctions: Policies aimed at protecting the nation from future sanctions by building up reserves have made it more resilient, but they have come at the expense of growth. Still, the Kremlin argues that the sanctions haven’t had an impact on its foreign policy. Perhaps more notably the Russian economy will continue to slide, according to analyst predictions: However, the fact that the gap in potential versus actual growth continues to widen implies that sanctions are having a prolonged impact, the analysts said. The lingering effect puts under question Russian government forecasts that policy changes and investment will push GDP growth above 3 percent by 2021.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:25 am
not me:
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:23 am
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:29 am
“The Eurozone Banks’ Trillion-Dollar Timebomb”
https://tinyurl.com/y8j59pvq
“Two factors weigh on sentiment. More than EUR104 billion of risky “hybrid bonds” (CoCos) are included in the calculation of core capital. The total volume of Non-Performing Loans across the European Union is still at around EUR 900 billion, well above pre-crisis levels, with a provision ratio of only 50.7%, according to the European Commission. Although the ratio has declined to 4.4%, down by roughly 1 percentage point year-on-year, the absolute figure remains elevated and the provision ratio is too small. This is what I call the “one trillion eurozone timebomb”. One trillion euro risk when the MSCI Europe Bank index has a total market capitalization of around EUR790 billion.”
“Anyone who believes these two problems will be solved by extending quantitative easing and low rates has learnt nothing from the past years. What these risks show is that eurozone banks need to implement a much more aggressive recapitalization plan. Capital increases and eliminating cash dividends will likely have to return. Managers do not want to do it because shares are too low according to them. However, waiting for a bounce has proven to be a big mistake. 2018 was the year of the perfect combination to drive banks shares higher: Confidence in the eurozone, the likelihood of rate hikes, improvement of fundamentals and earnings growth. None of it happened. Waiting for things to get better for asset classes is not enough. Eurozone banks are better than three years ago. They are nowhere close to having solved their challenges.”
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 5:31 am
Not me
https://www.zerohedge.com
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 6:00 am
Attention Doomie preppers and permies!
It is not possible to defend a farm… attackers will kill you when you venture out to weed or sow or harvest… they will get into your farm at night and raid the crop and kill the animals..
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 6:27 am
shut up stupid. How many times a week do you say that?? Are you suffering cognitive dissonance?
Valley Girl on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 7:33 am
“Are you suffering cognitive dissonance?”
No, but I love you with all of my being….
Valley Girl on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 7:39 am
Her Highness Davy I
Have you considered the possibility there is another poster who goes by the name “Davy”? You don’t hold a copyright on the name, retard.
Gag me with a spoon.
Your face is so unattractive and disturbing to me that I’d like to you wear a paper sack for my own personal comfort. Oh my God, Davy, bag your face!!!!
You are such a barf bag.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 7:45 am
Clogg is obbssed with alpha males ie Putin, Trump, Spencer.. He loves a Strong dominant male to submit himself to..
Typical European faggot..
LMFAO!
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 7:45 am
Goldman Sachs believes the US economy will slow to a crawl next year
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/goldman-sachs-believes-the-us-economy-will-slow-to-a-crawl-next-year.html
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 7:48 am
We’ve Reached the End of White Christian America
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/504065/america-post-christianity/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2018-11-16T21%3A43%3A01&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR1vqYy1ULrlb9DXBCQVvLX2FtLSM2vS_MSSws41UxF-Pdg93hTBSvlV-50
DIE WHITEY! DIE!
HAHA!
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 8:17 am
Richard Spencer Beat His Pregnant Wife, Kept Her Sleep-Deprived, Divorce Filings Allege
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-spencer-wife-nina-koupriianova_us_5bd06d29e4b055bc9486edc6
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 8:38 am
“WTI Slumps Back To $55 Handle As Russia Delays Production-Cut Decision”
https://tinyurl.com/ydch3mdb
“Bloomberg reports that Russia held off committing to further output curbs, opening up a gap with Saudi Arabia which has called for supply cuts. Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said producers need to “better understand both the current conditions and the winter outlook” before agreeing to a supply cut. A weak demand outlook, waivers on sanctioned Iranian crude and high U.S. production has pushed oil into a bear market. To counter this, Saudi Arabia has said producers may have to cut output by 1 million barrels a day, but Novak wants them to “make a balanced decision, and so far there are no criteria for it.” Furthermore, trade tensions between the U.S. and China escalated over the weekend, adding to worries supply may overtake consumption.”
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 8:43 am
“We Will Never Have A Deal”: China’s Former Top Trade Negotiator Slams Beijing’s “Unwise” Trade War Tactics”
https://tinyurl.com/yacntf6s
“Specifically, Long said it was unwise to impose import duties on soybeans in retaliation for US President Donald Trump’s decision to slap additional levies on Chinese imports, explaining that “agricultural products are very sensitive [in trade], and soybeans are very sensitive as well … We should have avoided targeting agricultural products because targeting agricultural products should be the last resort,” Long said. “But we have targeted agricultural products, or soybeans, right from the start.” The agricultural states that produce the bulk of America’s soybeans make up Trump’s political heartland, but Long pointed out: “China is in dire need of soybean imports, so why did we pick out soybeans from the beginning? Is this deep thinking?” China had imposed a 25% import duty on soybeans in the first round of the tariff battle with the US. And while this greatly reduced US exports to the world’s biggest soybean importer, it has also led to sharp price increases in China.”
“Long’s rare public criticism came as negotiation teams from the two countries prepare for a fresh round of talks, whose prospects however are dimming with each passing day, and certainly after this weekend’s APEC summit fiasco in which VP Pence and president Xi exhanged sharp verbal blows indicating that neither country is willing to compromise. Still, Long said he was “cautiously optimistic” about the prospects of solving the dispute because Trump’s tariffs have also hurt US interests. “To some extent, I like Trump’s character,” Long said. “I hope the trade talks can have a good result.”
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 8:46 am
America’s largest bridal store “David’s Bridal” files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/11/19/davids-bridal-bankruptcy/2053083002/
America’s largest Toy store, Guitar store, mattress store, and bridal store..All file for bankruptcy this year..Dropping like flies..
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 9:15 am
Sorry for all the plagiarized cut and paste off topic posts everyone. I’m such a dumbass.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 9:36 am
Demand destruction
“Homebuilders Come Clean – Admit Housing Market Optimism Has Collapsed”
https://tinyurl.com/yblrmwll
“The homebuilder index represents one of the first breaks in high levels of business and consumer confidence that have persisted since Trump was elected. “Rising mortgage interest rates in recent months coupled with the cumulative run-up in pricing has caused housing demand to stall,” NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz said in a statement accompanying the data. “Given that housing leads the economy, policy makers need to focus more on residential market conditions.” Under the covers, the NAHB sub-index measuring current sales fell seven points to 67, the lowest since August 2016, while the index for the six-month outlook for transactions dropped 10 points to 65, the lowest since May 2016. A measure of prospective buyer traffic declined eight points to 45, also the lowest since August 2016. Optimism fell across al regions with The West and Northeast falling the most.”
JuanP on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 10:07 am
“Full text of Chinese President Xi at APEC CEO”
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1127766.shtml
Maybe there are some here that would like to go to the source instead of reading another one of Davy’s biased articles. I challenge Americans to read the speech and find fault with it. I hope you have some savings, guys, because it looks like rough weather ahead. The Chinese will not yield to Trump’s bullying and Trump won’t back down. Things are bound to get worse. When the US tariffs increase automatically from 10% to 25% in January the global financial system will inevitably suffer some tremors; let’s hope this house of cards doesn’t come down crashing.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 10:22 am
Global Times dot cn is fair and balanced? You are a loon dirty Juan. You rank at the top of extreme and bias.
Davy on Mon, 19th Nov 2018 11:07 am
Sorry for losing my shit again Juan.
Thank you for providing a link to President Xi’s speech.