Adaptability

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The UK government's adaptation report admits that we've done bugger all to prepare for what's to come, offers no investment to do so now, and suggests that those who can profit where they can. Maybe they're aiming for some Mafia investment.

Low Lying

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Shamelessly recycling old material from 2008, as the news goes round and round and round....

Kiribati shows some leadership, as the tiger continues it's journey into oblivion

Conflicts of Interests

Military think-tanks are considering the likely consequences of peak oil and climate change, and adjusting their projections, as issues like water and land begin to take up ever more of the centre stage.

Having just noticed the date, I should add - although it should go without saying - that it is violence, the habit of violence, and the rush to violence for gain, that concerns us. I include economic violence here. It makes no odds whether it comes from individuals, governments or would-be governments. It is madness to suppose that an idea can be beaten into a human head, or liberty or divinity imposed at the point of a gun, so we must assume that those who put the innocent in harm's way have darker and more utilitarian motives. Blair, Bush and Bin Laden all piss in the same Machiavellian pot, and conceal themselves behind the same veils of religious exceptionalism. In the critical times ahead those habits would be suicidal.

A matter of scale

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Suggested by this fine article by Craig Mackintosh

Plus a round of applause for Tod

Peak

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More of an illustration, really

Reaper

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Nice piece on AGW, markets and food-riots, by Raj Patel in the Guardian, and some further words on the biofuel connection.

And some fine urban food solutions from Grist

Rags and Riches

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Chuckles makes some overdue points about the godawful shite-fest that is the fascion world

Elsewhere - a nod to Budhism as an environmental force, and some jolly notes on mass extinction. Have a nice weekend

Passion Wagons

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A human powered car

The Kitchen Sinks

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Musing on the value of differentials in a time of crisis.

Elsewhere... Nuclear costs continue to spiral and some in the industry glimpse a more sustainable future.

Another interesting TED talk