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chrislewis.bsky.social
Writing about food security in a hot and stormy world. PhD student at UW-Madison. https://toughgrowing.substack.com/
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submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

@hannahritchie.bsky.social found that harvests for several staple crops broke records in 2024. I tried to think through what those numbers mean--with work from @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @nathanielbullard.com @rjnskl.bsky.social and others. open.substack.com/pub/toughgro...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Have always felt like I was missing something about the word "resistance."

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Tried to make pupusas for the first time the other night. Not the prettiest but tasted pretty good! With home-fermented curtido and salsa roja from frozen summer tomatoes.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

We so often treat the Americas’ pre-colonial history as static. But here, new evidence that the population of North America reached its maximum in the year 1150, “then fell at least 30% by 1500.” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Life expectancy in the US —by educational attainment, by county www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social —the growing inequalities abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 12 comments

We're trying to eat more vegetarian meals at home this year, and this peanut tofu satay was a real winner. Herbs, coconut milk, and sriracha make for a nice, layered set of flavors. Recipe here: www.instagram.com/p/DEKtiMSJSKO/

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Keep at it, y'all! Often significant change takes a long time.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

submitted 136 days ago • 134 comments

the actual best thing you can do for your mental health the next 4 years is make it a point to not wake up everyday and google the president to see what shit he did while you were asleep. Stay engaged, stay aware stay alert but don't do this, it will not only not help it'll make you feel worse daily

submitted 144 days ago • 214 comments

Free government olive oil for everyone! (Maybe.) toughgrowing.substack.com/p/free-gover...

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Capitalism, premised on ever increasing profits, is fundamentally incapable of solving the climate crisis. As the tweet translates the MIT Tech Review, “the problem with solar is we can’t monopolize the sun or make it scarcer than it is”.

submitted 223 days ago • 8 comments

Food was 25% of a household budget in the 1940s, and is less than 10% today. Will the trend reverse? toughgrowing.substack.com/p/the-cheap-...

submitted 243 days ago • 0 comments

Lately I've been thinking about: 1. New tree friends 2. ant wars 3. our generation's moon landing 4. the end of winter 5. the Great Turning toughgrowing.substack.com/p/reading-wa...

submitted 308 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve studied food and climate for some years now. But when models say crop yields will decline, I still struggle to wrap my head around the implications. toughgrowing.substack.com/p/what-would...

submitted 335 days ago • 0 comments

I agree. It does drive harmful "we don't have time for equity" thinking. It also drives "we don't have time for proper analysis of the actual climate consequences of this proposed solution" thinking. So there are iffy solutions jumping on the climate crisis train, which creates additional risks.

submitted 513 days ago • 1 comment

I broke down the argument that the recent East African drought *wouldn't have happened* if not for climate change. toughgrowing.substack.com/p/a-climate-...

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