SMIIIIIIILE!

The Kenyan government is over-riding opposition from local people and international agencies to destroy 80 square miles of rare wetland habitat - not for the food needs of its population, but for the fuel tanks of western consumers. So a sustainable lifestyle will be bulldozed for short term contingency.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/24/biofuels.wildlife

In the USA the desert states are realising the potential of their climate.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/24/energy.energyefficiency

and the UK government tries to sidestep any democratic process in an effort to push through whatever they feel like pushing through via a selected quango of friendly peerage-hungry specialists.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-in-our-backyard-852824.html