We got a little behind on our New Scientist skims but did the April 4th issue with our toast this morning and there was that oldie and still not goodie going back all the way to The High Frontier. You can see it in orange-pink in the picture above, and if you can’t see it the sentence before it in the same editorial has the gist of it too:

“Abandoning intensive farming isn’t an option, as a grow-your-own organic revolution cannot feed the world. But we can end farming’s dependence on fossil fuels and prevent this from happening again – indeed, this has to be done anyway to help slash the massive greenhouse gas emissions from farming.”

We’ll give you that direct link in a second so you can read it all online, but the reason for this post is that it electric-prodded us to jump to BookFinder and grab copies of Nansen’s Sun Power to start passing along the beltway. And… wow. Instead we had to update one of the reviews on the Solar Power Satellite Recommended (and *Not* Recommended) Books section of the Space Studies Institute website.

Why? Scroll down this link to Ralph’s Sun Power quick-read review and note the UPdate added in red: https://ssi.org/solar-power-satellites/sps-books/

The New Scientist editorial direct link? That is here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521611-the-iran-war-is-exposing-the-huge-risks-in-our-food-system/

And how it connects? No need to read, this is all queued up to talk it to you from the SSI Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/0VG-ndTWp_0?si=PsgTYkfRM5ELVAXW&t=206s

[between us, that last link video was not done by AI. Someone put the whole video on reddit a while back and that was where the comments went… AI, AI, AI. But, honest, it is a human talking, and was recorded live as it was being presented by that human to a room of actual humans. Just sayin’, SSI is people.]