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Joe Rogan cites Randall Carlson's theory that massive post-ice age floods, not slow erosion, carved features like the Columbia River basin and possibly the Grand Canyon.
James Stout explains the BLM's 'productive purposes' reinterpretation of the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act could threaten tribal buffalo herds and regenerative ranching, favoring maximum extraction.
Kris Newby identifies three factors for the recent explosion in tick populations: climate change reducing winter die-offs, human housing expanding into tick habitats, and an overabundance of deer that serve as tick breeding hosts.
Ecologist Robert Costanza estimated the total value of global ecosystem services, from pollination to water purification, at $142.7 trillion per year, exceeding global GDP.
Bats in South Texas cotton farms act as natural pesticides, providing an estimated $700,000 in value annually by reducing crop loss, equivalent to avoided chemical spraying.
In Mao County, China, the disappearance of wild bees forced apple farmers to hand-pollinate flowers, which increased fruit yields by 30% but became economically unfeasible as labor wages rose.
Environmental economist Glenn Marie Lang argues that failing to assign economic value to ecosystems implicitly values them at zero, which leads to their destruction in cost-benefit analyses by governments.
A massive wildfire in L.A. 'a little more than a year ago' took out twice the square mileage of the Nagasaki bomb, destroying large areas, but city and state response was abysmal, and rebuilding efforts are stalled by permitting issues and new housing demands.
The head of the LA Water Department was reportedly unaware that the key reservoir was not full during the wildfire, leading to fire hydrants lacking water.
The World Food Program warns that 43 million people could face acute hunger due to a combination of the Iran war, extreme weather, and high fertilizer costs, with US wheat yields projected to be the lowest since the early 1970s.