Organic farmers are the proof. They grow healthy food. With a federal policy change from pesticide-dependent agriculture to family farming guided by agroecological science, organic farmers would have no trouble feeding the nation.
The second change to defeat recurring or continuing pandemics would be to address the life and death threats of climate change seriously. This monster is fed by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, billions of cars fueled by petroleum, and industrialized agriculture, especially its animal sacrifice zones. These enclosures, also known as animal farms, resemble sardine cans packed with too many sardines.
They are the annual killing grounds for about 9 billion hogs, cattle, chicken, turkeys, and other domesticated animals. Animals forced to live in such proximity to each other trigger diseases, some of which have the potential of becoming pandemics. The additional harm of these hell holes is that the mountains of animal excrement produce diseases and greenhouse gases like methane.
Experts figure that these animal disease factories may be responsible with the rest of industrialized agriculture for a third to a half of all US greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Thus, if President Joe Biden wants to be true to his promises and should, he needs to ban or phase out pesticides and reform or abolish animal farms. The eternal Sun god Helios, god for the Greeks and other ancient people, is beckoning to save us from our madness. Solar and other forms of non-polluting energy have the potential to create a more just and livable society here and elsewhere in our beautiful world.
These are not easy choices, but then ignoring them will only get us in more danger. Scientists have been warning us we have no more than this decade to clean up our nest. Our children and the Earth demand it. Threatening the Earth is utterly barbarian hubris. Plato said the Earth is the oldest of the gods and the maker of days. She is our mother. Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian and environmental theorist. He is the author of hundreds of articles and 6 books.
See all the latest news from Greece and the world at Greekreporter. Contact our newsroom to report an update or send your story, photos and videos. He lets them, and watches, weeping, as she is led away. He then calls on his mother, Thetis, a sea nymph, to hear of his mistreatment at the hands of Agamemnon. She comes to him and embracing him, listens to his story of Agamemnon's greed. He then implores her to speak of his misfortune to Zeus, and to ask him to aid the Trojans, so as to punish Agamemnon.
Thetis agrees that she will do it and leaves him. Achilles' encampment is described as being set apart from the others, and the representatives of Agamemnon find Achilles pg. From the proximity of Achilles to his transport and weaponry, we can begin to form an image of a man who is deeply tied to travel and warfare. The fourth scene, beginning on pg. He and his companions sail into the harbor and bring the girl and their sacrifice to the temple of Apollo. They arrange their offerings around the altar and Chryses is so overjoyed at the return of his daughter that he prays to Apollo to lift his curse.
The staging for this piece is very simple, requiring an alter with such props as slaughtered goats ans cattle, and barley for the Greeks to sprinkle in deference to the god. The fifth scene begins on pg. When Thetis goes to see Zeus pg. Lastly, on pg. He is chided by Hera for conspiring with Thetis, for Hera loves all men equally and doesn't want one to be favored over the other in the war. The situation is diffused by Hephaistos. Though he fears retribution from Agamemnon, Calchas reveals the plague as a vengeful and strategic move by Chryses and Apollo.
Agamemnon flies into a rage and says that he will return Chryseis only if Achilles gives him Briseis as compensation. The men argue, and Achilles threatens to withdraw from battle and take his people, the Myrmidons, back home to Phthia. Achilles stands poised to draw his sword and kill the Achaean commander when the goddess Athena, sent by Hera, the queen of the gods, appears to him and checks his anger. Achilles prays to his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to ask Zeus , king of the gods, to punish the Achaeans.
He relates to her the tale of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and she promises to take the matter up with Zeus—who owes her a favor—as soon as he returns from a thirteen-day period of feasting with the Aethiopians. Meanwhile, the Achaean commander Odysseus is navigating the ship that Chryseis has boarded. When he lands, he returns the maiden and makes sacrifices to Apollo. Chryses, overjoyed to see his daughter, prays to the god to lift the plague from the Achaean camp. Apollo acknowledges his prayer, and Odysseus returns to his comrades.
But the end of the plague on the Achaeans only marks the beginning of worse suffering. Ever since his quarrel with Agamemnon, Achilles has refused to participate in battle, and, after twelve days, Thetis makes her appeal to Zeus, as promised. Zeus is reluctant to help the Trojans, for his wife, Hera , favors the Greeks, but he finally agrees. Hera becomes livid when she discovers that Zeus is helping the Trojans, but her son Hephaestus persuades her not to plunge the gods into conflict over the mortals.
Like other ancient epic poems, The Iliad presents its subject clearly from the outset. Although the Trojan War as a whole figures prominently in the work, this larger conflict ultimately provides the text with background rather than subject matter. By the time Achilles and Agamemnon enter their quarrel, the Trojan War has been going on for nearly ten years. Instead, it scrutinizes the origins and the end of this wrath, thus narrowing the scope of the poem from a larger conflict between warring peoples to a smaller one between warring individuals.
But while the poem focuses most centrally on the rage of a mortal, it also concerns itself greatly with the motivations and actions of the gods.
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