Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

Sustenance

Comedy Break, Consumerism, Economics, Food Shortages, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts August 31, 2010

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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.

Further Reading:

The Gospel of Consumption

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Tumbling Dice

Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts August 30, 2010

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Loaded dice and extra spots, courtesy of DotEarth.

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Cracking Codes

Comedy Break, Food Shortages, GMOs, peak oil — by Marc Roberts August 28, 2010

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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?

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Power Trip

Comedy Break, Consumerism, Economics, Nuclear, Society — by Marc Roberts August 16, 2010

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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.

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Against the Grain

Comedy Break, Economics, Food Shortages, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts August 11, 2010

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Russian president Medvedev puts unprecedented weather conditions down to Climate Change. The potential impacts on food supplies of this sort of occurrence are pretty clear.

Further Reading:

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Anaerobic Indigestion

Comedy Break, Consumerism, Society, Waste Systems & Recycling — by Marc Roberts August 7, 2010

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The Uk may have to import waste to burn as it builds more incinerators than we can use, whilst waste pickers in the majority world – the poorest of the poor – complain that their livelihoods as recyclers are being destroyed by incineration plans. Oh – and there’s a car that runs on shit.

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Whale Tale

Biodiversity, Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change, News, Water Contaminaton — by Marc Roberts July 31, 2010

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With phyloplankton levels crashing and the whole marine food chain going belly-up, perhaps marine life should follow this whale’s example, and be a bit more pro-active.

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BP Target of “Irresponsible Act”

Comedy Break, Economics, peak oil — by Marc Roberts July 27, 2010

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Greenpeace shut down 50 BP flagged petrol station franchises in London in order to apply pressure on the incoming CEO, Bo Diddley, er… I mean Bob Dudley, as his predecessor heads for Siberia. I can’t see him giving a tuppenny shite, personally. He’s got a whole planet to fry and his paradigms ain’t for shifting.

Nice try though.

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