Cheering up cantankerous Frank

The Yangtze may be slowing to a heavily polluted, lifeless trickle, but as long as we can still get plastic novelties and cheap fashion items courtesy of a booming Chinese economy, all's right with the world.

BOGUS TECHNO-MAGIC!

Today the chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, Sir Jonathon Porritt - made it clear that the UK Government's suspiciously enthusiastic rush to nuclear is BOGUS, as the young folk used to say.

Bye-bye birdy

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds warns that habitats are in the process of shifting 550 km north east and that the UK may lose 3/4 of it's native bird-life, while flood warnings return to areas rapidly becoming accustomed to more "adventurous" weather conditions!

humming while Rome burns

With a 70% increase in demand expected by 2030 the American Automobile Industry is damned if it's gonna rely on foreign imports and it's damned if it's gonna compromise on the American way of life. It's damned, anyway. A Green Hummer! You couldn't make it up!

New Clear Dawn, again.

An enormous amount of money is changing hands. It's nice to know that it's all been thoroughly thought through.

Cantankerous Frank on a daily basis?

This week has seen a new economy car launched to encourage cyclists and moped-ers in the global south to up the carbon ante;a relaunch of the nuclear programme (that strip with-held for now); Sir David King blaming greens for alienating consumers and me noticing that BAE were planning a range of eco-friendly weapons of war (I shit you not). I've been laid off with a bad back all week so I've been practicing the art of the short-form strip, so I'm on decent form for my new "Ethical Consumer" gig. If there's anybody out there, some feedback would be apreciated.