Vox Pop

Nobody knows what everyone needs to know, so nobody agrees to do what needs to be done because everyone's clinging to convenience instead of facing the possibilities

Built-in Obsolescence

Too much e-junk floating around

With apologies and thanks to Polyp for letting me shamelessly steal chunks of drawing.

Maybe we can all power our indlulgences with Bloom Boxes in the future

Even the Saudis seek to diversify in the face of peak oil

The NEW WEBSITE - www.marcrobertscartoons.com - will be going LIVE very soon, honestly.

Re-introducing Ugmug McDuff

Plus ca change....
This strip, from June 2008, fits just as well into today's news

Elsewhere - The dark Lord Drax decides that it's cheaper to fuck things up than it is to fix them.

Waste Not Want Not

Where there's muck there's (an absence of) brass

That's not the only recycling going on.

Fairtrade solutions in troubled times

Travelling man

The UK government - having signed up to the 10:10 campaign - proposes that it's spokesdrones should henceforth travel cattle class en route to their embassies and conferences. Very gratifying.

Where might Ern be going? He could visit Tajikistan, perhaps,

or India.

He could stop off to check out his oil interests in Peru as well.

Elsewhere, Obama OKs a new raft of nuclear plants. Let's hope they build to a higher spec' than Sellafield.
Lest we forget - other power sources are available

British bishops call on the faithful to give up carbon for lent.

Manchester campaigners achieve significant breakthrough through steady and dedicated local campaigning. Nice one.

and finally...
The iPhone has an app to piss off contrarians and to educate the gadget-fixated.

Salt and Vinegar

The seas continue to acidify apace.

Biofuel takes to the air
...and crashes to the ground
...without significant benefits along the way

Art's lost subject, anyone?

Rigorous scientific debate

Personally, I'd feel a lot happier about the evidence in favour of Genetically Modified crops if that evidence wasn't wholly owned and selectively released by corporations whose legal obligation is to maximise profit above all other considerations, and who are not legally obliged to release any contrary data under the protection of "commercial sensitivity".

By the way, where IS all the necessary fertiliser going to come from once the accessible oil runs out?

Feed the soil, not the plant