Negative Energies

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There's been a lot of ink spilled over Climate Change today, largely prompted by the imminent arrival of Bjorn Lomborg's new book. Everyone's restating the dangers and the growing realities and it all looks pretty scary. But - how do we communicate this in a way that doesn't cause paralysis and panic?; in a way that engages the creative flows of our collective societies? Answers welcome

Sustenance

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In a warming world pests migrate and flourish in previously inpenetrable habitats and latitudes.

Of course there are obvious problems with Frank's position here - like what happens when your subsistence gets washed away by some other unpredicted AGW shitstorm.

As ever, Permaculture looks straight into the heart of things (thanks to Craig Mackintosh for the links)

Cracking Codes

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Whilst the Russians learn to live without buckwheat and displaced people are poised for land-struggles in Central Africa, boffins crack the wheat genome, which promises to keep us trying the same industrial scale thing for ever. And how will we fuel this ever expanding industrial agriculture sector? Hmm, maybe.
BAA propose to compost food waste - who'd have thunk it?

Manchester Inaction Plan

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A local matter but one that is being played out in cities across the planet. For full details of Manchester's response to Climate Change there is no finer source than MCFly

Time

I imagine that there must come a time when one must evaluate one's rationality and even sanity in continuing to spend inordinate amounts of time in a pursuit that is so clearly of interest to only a very very few people scattered extremely thinly across an entire planet. If the goal one wishes to achieve could be more productively accomplished - in terms of numbers at least - by shouting in an empty street or scrawling on a toilet wall, one must question the point of carrying on. Poor old Frank. Such a shocking waste of time. Such a pointless, pointless exercise. Ho hum. Never mind
I'm not one to give up on a lost cause though. There are so many bad old habits seductively beckoning me back home that I've gotta stick with it now, even though it is plainly insane to do so.
For those few who enjoy Frank, I thank you for your support and hope that future postings may continue to amuse. But you should realise that statistically speaking you are in such a small minority that you constitute a negligible error and can be safely discounted from consideration by all discerning comic strip enthusiasts. The evidence is in, the numbers have been checked and re-checked and I'm afraid that Frank is - officially - rubbish.

Still... fuck 'em, eh?

Tumbling Dice

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For a better explanation, see DotEarth

Power Trip

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The UK Gov't backtracks on cast iron commitments to Environmental performance standards to make space for more dirty coal

I can't help thinking it's a sweetener to bring the big energy companies on board for the stalled nuclear programme. Investors won't commit unless the taxpayer guarantees their profits and underwrites the decommissioning costs.

Public debt for private profit, without so much as a mention of consumer restraint- all sounds depressingly familiar

Against the Grain

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Anaerobic Indigestion

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Red

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With environmental shitstorms coming thick and fast, we find ourselves scraping around for money to fix the damage whilst the financial elite bugger off with the family silver.