Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
Resolution for a Green New Deal to reduce climate change
If we don’t have goals, we will never come close to attaining them.
The fabulous new Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the esteemed Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have issued a non-binding resolution urging Congress to enact and implement a ten-year plan to control and reverse climate change.
The Green New Deal is a comprehensive plan that demands profound changes in many sectors of society, including agriculture. With respect to agriculture, it calls for:
Why does this matter? Here, for example, is a graph of world temperatures over the last century, with 2018 being the fourth hottest ever.
The Resolution may seem like a pipe dream in today’s political climate, but the issues it addresses are urgent. Its recommendations set an agenda, one deserving of serious advocacy.
