Re-Externalising the externals

There seems to be a lot of backtracking in the air as people who should really know better consider selling their own long term futures for the sake of a pleasant afternoon in the sun. Maybe we're just not that bright.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-ecocrunch-can-britain-still-afford-to-go-green-853415.html

Oxfam confirms that the food for cars movement is pushing the food for people movement back 30% whilst the carbon market is criticised by Stern and others for being something of a curate's egg.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080625/twl-uk-biofuels-oxfam-bd5ae06.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/25/carbonemissions.fossilfuels

Meanwhile the UK sells off its welfare system to anyone with a big stick and a filing cabinet - and those good people in the platinum mining industry go to the aid of poor Robert Mugabe.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4207971.ece
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4855c04e-421e-11dd-a5e8-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F4855c04e-421e-11dd-a5e8-0000779fd2ac.html&_i_referer=

Plus - a blast from a previous post about jellyfish - making the news on a beach near you - from now on...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/25/climatechange.fishing
http://throbgoblins.blogspot.com/2008/02/lifes-beach.html